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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Holborn 1905
Report for the year 1905 of the Medical Officer of Health
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NUMBER OF TENEMENTS.
The following table gives details of tenements of 1, 2, 3 and 4 rooms:—
| Tenements with | No. of Tenements. | Percentage of all Tenements. | Total Occupants. | Percentage of Population in each Group of Tenements. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 room. | 3,725 | 27.0 | 8,502 | 14.3 |
| 2 rooms | 3,834 | 27.8 | 13,787 | 23.2 |
| 3 „ | 2,224 | 16.1 | 9,175 | 15.4 |
| 4 „ | 989 | 7.2 | 4,260 | 7.2 |
| Total | 10,772 | 78.1 | 35,724 | 60.1 |
REGISTERED BIRTHS AND BIRTH-RATES.
| Both Sexes. | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| District. | Males. | Females. | Legitimate. | Illegitimate. | Total. | Birth rate per 1,000. |
| St. Giles and Bloomsbury Holborn | 529 317 | 459 296 | 922 602 | 66 11 | 988 613 | 33.2 23.1 |
| Whole Borough | 846 | 755 | 1,524 | 77 | 1,601 | 28.4 |
CORRECTED BIRTHS AND BIRTH-RATES.
The Registrar-General gave permission at the latter part of the year 1904 for
details of births to be supplied by the Sub-Registrars. These details were at once
supplied to us, so that I am now able to exclude the births of infants whose mothers
were "non-residents."
Of the 988 registered births in St. Giles and Bloomsbury, a large proportion of
which take place at the British Lying-in Hospital, Endell Street, as many as 465
were of infants whose mothers were non-residents in the Borough.