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The Metropolitan Borough of Holborn.
REPORT
of the
Medical Officer of Health
For the Year 1911.
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 1911, the various statistics of the year
refer to the fifty-two weeks ended Saturday, December 30th, 1911, as adopted by
the Registrar-General, and known as the Registration year.
The Census of the Population which was taken on Sunday, April 2nd, 1911,
gave an enumerated population in the Borough of 49,357, a reduction of 10,048 on
the previous census of 1901, or 169 per cent. During the previous decennium
1891-1901 there was a reduction of 7,376, or 11*0 per cent. The Borough is
becoming less and less residential and more and more important as a business
centre. The number of factories, workshops and workplaces keeps increasing so
that we have now a very large day population. The density of population is 122
persons per acre in comparison with 61 for London.
All the birth-rates and the various death-rates for the years 1901-1911 have
been re-estimated on the census populations 1901 and 1911 instead of as given in
previous Annual Reports on the census populations 1891 and 1901.