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I may point out that in Holborn there is a very much larger proportion of
Common Lodging House accommodation than in any other Metropolitan Borough.
116 of the total of 768 deaths were of persons removed from those houses to
Infirmaries, &c,
The corrected infantile mortality (deaths of infants under 1 year of age) was
100 per 1,000 births, compared with 103 for London, which are both the lowest
recorded. Last year these rates were 101 and 108 respectively. For both years
the Holborn rates were lower than those for London.
The death-rate from epidemic diseases in Holborn was again very low, and for
the eighth year in succession, below that for London, viz.: 0.81 in comparison
with 1.14 for London.
The corrected death-rate from phthisis was 1.62 per 1,000 in comparison
with 176 for 1909 and 2.24 for the preceding decennium. More than 30 percent.
of the deaths were of persons who had been removed to Infirmaries from common
lodging houses. The London rate was 1/14, the lowest recorded and 1.51 for the
preceding decennium.
The number of notifications of infectious diseases (excluding phthisis) was
again small, having been only 181 in comparison with a decennial average of 384.
The notification rate for Holborn was again lower than for London generally,
being 3.4 per 1,000 in comparison with 4.5 for London. For each of the
past eight years the Holborn notification rate has been lower than the
London rate.
The London County Council, with the approval of the Local Government
Board, made an order for the extension of the notification of cases of cerebrospitial
fever (epidemic cerebro-spinal meningitis) for a further period of 12 months,
and a further order has since been issued extending the notification for 12 months
from March 13th, 1911.
Ophthalmia Neonatorum (infectious inflammation of the eyes of newly
born infants) was added to the list of notifiable diseases from and after the
13th March, 1911.
Some details are given respecting the action taken in connection with the
destruction of rats in the Borough.
On account of the occurrence of some cases of Plague in East Suffolk the
Local Government Board, in November, 1910, issued Regulations as to Plague and
respecting the destruction of rats.