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Holborn 1907

Report for the year 1907 of the Medical Officer of Health

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CONTENTS.
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Introduction 5
Registration Year 5
Birth-rates 5
Death-rates 6
Zymotic Death-rates 6
Diarrhœa, Deaths from 6
Consumption, Death-rate 6
Infectious Diseases. Prevalence of 6
,, Notification-rate 6
Scarlet Fever, Prevalence of. Proposed Inquiry 6
Sanatoria for Consumption. L.G.B. Report
Notification of Births Act, 1907 7
Infantile Mortality 7
Modified Milk 7
Cleansing of Persons Act, 1897 7
Warner Street (Italian Colony) Area 7
Union Buildings Area 7
London County Council (General Powers) Act, 1907 7
House Refuse, Removal of 8
Manure, Removal of
Factories, Workshops, &c,
Industrial Employment of Women 8
Inspections, &c. 8
Unsound Food
Meteorology 8
Area, Houses and Population 8
Estimated Population, 1907 9
Rateable Value, 1907 9
Number of Tenements 10
Births and Birth-rates 10
Ditto ditto corrected 10
Mortality 11
Deaths Registered 11
Deaths in Public Institutions within the Borough 11
Ditto ditto outside the Borough 12
Corrected deaths and death-rates 13
Care and Feeding of Infants 14
Notification of Births Act, 1907 14
Modified Milk for Infants 15
Senile Mortality 16
Deaths from Zymotic Diseases 16
Ditto ditto during 1907 and ten preceding year 17
Ditto Influenza 18
Ditto Alcoholism 18
Ditto Cancer 19
Sudden and Violent Deaths 19
Inquests 19
The Public Mortuary 19
Infectious Diseases 19
Notification of Infectious Diseases during 1907 and ten preceding year 20
Small Pox 21
Scarlet Fever 21
Ditto Secondary Cases 21
Ditto Return Cases 22
Ditto Errors in Diagnosis 22
Ditto Proposed Inquiry into cause and Prevention 22
Diphtheria 24
Ditto Secondary Cases 24
Ditto Return Cases 24
Ditto Errors in Diagnosis 24
Enteric Fever 24
A 2