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to school infection. Of 72 chidren under five years of age 54 were attending
•school. In 35 of the cases there was no doctor in attendance, and 91 occurred
in tenements of only one. or two rooms. Isolation was therefore practicably
impossible in about two-thirds of the cases.
There were only 13 deaths in comparison with 25 in the preceding year;
of these only two belonged to St. Giles and Bloomsbury and 11 to the
Holborn Sub-District. All were young children under five years of age.
WHOOPING COUGH.
Whooping cough on the other hand was apparently more prevalent than
during the preceding year, there having been 27 deaths in comparison with
only 10 in 1906; 20 of the deaths were in the Holborn Sub-Division, and all
but one of the deaths were children under five years of age.
DIARRHEA.
On account of the cold, showery summer there was very little prevalence
•of diarrhoea during the year, the number of deaths having been only 16 in
comparison with 39 in the preceding year, and a decennial average of 38.
As desired by the Local Government Board, under the heading
diarrhoea, as regards children under one year of age, all the deaths classified
as diarrhoeal diseases in Table V. have been included. Of the 16 deaths, 6
belonged to St. Giles and Bloomsbury, and 10 to the Holborn Sub-District.
All were children under five years of age, and all but one under one year of
age.
PHTHISIS OR CONSUMPTION.
The number of deaths from phthisis during the year 1907 was 125, equivalent
to a death-rate of 2"28 per 1,000; of these 59 belonged to St. Giles and Bloomsbury,
being a death-rate of 2-02 per 1,000, and 66 to the Holborn District, or a
death-rate of 2-54 per 1,000.
Of the 125 deaths, 28 were persons who had been removed to Infirmary from
common lodging houses, 14 from each division.
The corrected number of deaths in London was 6,654, the corresponding
death-rate being 1 '40 per 1,000.
The number of deaths from other tubercular diseases was 32; of these 12
belonged to St. Giles and Bloomsbury, and 20 to the Holborn District.
The following table gives the number of deaths in the Holborn Borough, and
the rate per 1,000 and the corresponding rate for Loudon for the ten years, 1898
to 1907, inclusive.