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Holborn 1905

Report for the year 1905 of the Medical Officer of Health

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CONTENTS.
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Introduction 5
Death Statistics 5
Birth-rates 5
Birth-rates and Death-rates 6
Infectious Diseases Notifications 6
Special Investigation and Re-organisation Committee, Report of 6
House Refuse, Removal of 7
Modified Milk for Infants 7
Sanitary Inspectors' Residences 8
Cleansing of Persons Act, 1897 8
Water supply in Tenement Lodging Houses 8
Area, Houses and Popuulation 8
Estimated Population, 1905 9
Rateable Value, 1905 9
Births and Birth-rates 10
Ditto ditto corrected 10
Care and Feeding of Infants 11
Mortality 12
Deaths registered in the Borough 12
Deaths in Public Institutions, etc., within the Borough 12
Deaths of Residents in Public Institutions outside the Borough 13
Corrected deaths and death-rates 14
Infantile Mortality 14
Ditto Modified Milk for Infants 15
Senile Mortality 16
Infectious Diseases 16
Deaths from Zymotic Diseases 16
Ditto during the year 1905 and the preceding ten years 17
Notifications of Infectious Diseases in the Borough during 1905 and the
preceding ten years 18
Small-pox 20
Scarlet Fever 20
Ditto Secondary Cases 20
Ditto "Return" Cases 20
Ditto Errors in Diagnosis 21
Diphtheria 24
Ditto Secondary and "Return" Cases 24
Ditto Errors in Diagnosis 24
Enteric and Continued Fever 25
Measles 25
Whooping Cough 25
Diarrhoea 26
Phthisis or Consumption 26
Ditto ditto Voluntary Notification of Consumption 27
Ditto ditto Spitting 28
Influenza 28
Alcoholism 28
Cancer 28
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