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The Metropolitan Borough of Bolton.
REPORT
of the
Medical Officer of Health
For the Year 1907.
PUBLIC HEALTH DEPARTMENT,
197, HIGH HOLBORN, W.C.
To the Mayor, Aldermen and Councillors of the
Metropolitan Borough of Holborn.
Gentlemen,
In this Annual Report for the year 1907, the various statistics for the year refer
to the fifty-two weeks ended Saturday, December 28th, 1907, 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.
During the past three years the birth-rate has been corrected as far as possible
by the exclusion of the births of infants whose mothers were non-residents, as it
was only in the latter part of the year 1904 that the Registrar-General gave
permission for the addresses and other details of births to be supplied by the
Sub-Registrars.