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Holborn 1906
Report for the year 1906 of the Medical Officer of Health
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| Bloomsbury and St. Giles | £592,652 |
| Holborn | £457,480 |
| Holborn Borough | £1,050,132 |
NUMBER OF TENEMENTS.
At the Census of 1901, the total number of tenements in the Holborn
Borough was 13,790. As large a proportion as 37.5 per cent. of the population
lived in tenements of one or two rooms, and 60.l per cent. of the population
lived in tenements of one to four rooms.
There were 3,725 tenements of 1 room.
,, 3,834 „ 2 rooms.
,, 2,224 ,, 3 „
,, 989 „ 4 „
| District. | Males. | Females. | Both Sexes. | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Legitimate. | Illegitimate. | Total. | Birth rate per 1,000. | |||
CORRECTED BIRTHS AND BIRTH-RATES.
The Registrar-General gave permission at the later 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 1,020 registered births in St. Giles and Bloomsbury, a large proportion
of which took place at the British Lying-in Hospital, Endell Street, as many
as 497 were of infants whose mothers were non-residents in the Borough.