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The Metropolitan Borough of holborn.
REPORT
of the
Medical Officer of Health
For the Year 1905.
PUBLIC HEALTH DEPARTMENT,
190, HIGH HOLBORN, W.C.
To the Mayor, Aldermen and Councillors of the
Metropolitan Borough of Holborn.
Gentlemen,
In this Annual Report for the year 1905, the various statistics for the year refer
to the fifty-two weeks ended Saturday, December 30th, 1905, as adopted by the
Registrar-General, and known as the Registration year.
The death statistics do not exactly correspond with those of the RegistrarGeneral
for the following reasons: The Holborn Union includes the area of the old
Holborn District Board of Works, Clerkenwell and St. Luke's. In many of the
deaths registered in outlying public institutions the only address given is that of the
Union, and from enquiries respecting some of these deaths which I have made of
the authorities of the public institutions, I have ascertained that the previous
addresses of the deceased before removal to the public institutions were not in this
Borough, and these deaths, although returned by the Registrars as belonging to this
Borough, have therefore been excluded.
I am now able for the first time to give a corrected birth-rate as the RegistrarGeneral
gave permission at the latter part of the year 1904, for details of births to
be supplied by the Sub-Registrars. If the births of infants whose mothers were nonresidents
are excluded, the corrected birth-rate is reduced from 28.4 to 20.3 per
1,000. Of the 988 registered births in St. Giles and Bloomsbury, a large proportion
of which took place at the British Lying-in Hospital, Endell Street, as many as 465
were of infants whose mothers were non-resident in the Borough.