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The Metropolitan Borough of holborn.
REPORT
of the
Medical Officer of Health
For the Year 1906.
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 1906, the various statistics for the year
refer to the fifty-two weeks ended Saturday, the 29th December, 1906, 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 inquiries 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.
The Registrar-General gave permission at the early part of the year 1904 for
the details of births to be supplied by the Sub-Registrars. The births of infants
whose mothers were non-residents have since then been excluded, and I have been
able to give corrected birth-rates for the past two years.
Although the London birth-rate, viz., 26.5 per 1000 is the lowest recorded,
the Holborn corrected birth-rate, viz , 20.6 is rather higher than for the year 1905,
when it was 20.3 per 1000.