Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health for the year 1922
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NATURAL AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS OF THE
DISTRICT.
Population and Houses.
The corrected enumerated population at the Census taken on Sunday,
June 19th, 1921, was- 43,192, a reduction of 6,125 on the previous census of 1911
or 12-5 per cent. During the previous decennium 1901-1911 there was a reduction
of 10,048 or 16-9 per cent.
The following estimate of population as supplied by the Registrar-General
has been adopted for the calculation of the death-rate and birth-rate of the
Borough for the year 1922—42,850.
The figures in the following tables are extracted from the Census lleport, 1921: —
Persons. | Males. | Females. | |||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1001. | 1911. | 1921. | 1901. | 191 | 1921. | 1901. | 1911. | 1921. | |
St. Giles and St. George, Bloomsbury | 31,46 | 25,088 | 22,830 | 15,370 | 12,036 | 11,218 | 16,066 | 13,052 | 11,612 |
Lincoln's Inn | 61 | 69 | 135 | 41 | 44 | 68 | 20 | 25 | 67 |
St. Giles and Bloomsbury | 31,497 | 25,157 | 22,965 | 15,411 | 12,080 | 11,286 | 16,086 | 13,077 | 11,679 |
St. Andrew and St. Georgethe-Martyr | 25,103 | 22,283 | 19,224 | 12,441 | 10,912 | 9,002 | 12,622 | 11,371 | 10,222 |
Liberty of Saffron Hill, Hatton Garden Ely Bents, and Ely Place | 2,561 | 1,733 | 825 | 1,48S | 992 | 370 | 1,073 | 741 | 456 |
Grays Iun | 232 | 173 | 161 | 140 | 96 | 63 | 92 | 77 | 98 |
Staple Inn | 12 | 11 | 17 | 9 | 9 | 11 | 3 | 2 | 6 |
Holborn Sub-Division | 27,908 | 24,200 | 20,227 | 14,078 | 12,009 | 9,446 | 13,830 | 12,191 | 10,781 |
Holborn Borough | 59,504 | 49,357 | 43,192 | 29,858 | 24,089 | 20,732 | 29,916 | 25,268 | 22,460 |
Wards— | |||||||||
Bloomsbury, North | 5,204 | 5,144 | 5,348 | 2,411 | 2,311 | 2,533 | 2,793 | 2,803 | 2,815 |
Bloomsburv, South | 7,194 | 5,851 | 6,528 | 3,219 | 2,624 | 3,263 | 3,975 | 3,227 | 3,265 |
Lincoln's Inn | 5,605 | 3,430 | 2,575 | 2,974 | 1,921 | 1,424 | 2,631 | 1,509 | 1,151 |
Saffron Hill | 2,661 | 1,733 | 825 | 1,488 | 992 | 370 | 1,073 | 741 | 455 |
4,518 | 3,946 | 3,442 | 2,142 | 1,948 | 1,585 | 2,376 | 1,998 | 1,857 | |
St. Andrew, South-East | 10,549 | 10,038 | 8,740 | 5,506 | 5,006 | 4,164 | 5,043 | 5,032 | 4,576 |
St George-the-Martyr | 10,280 | 8,483 | 7,220 | 4,942 | 4,063 | 3,327 | 5,338 | 4,420 | 3,893 |
St Giles, Central | 9,622 | 7,657 | 5,432 | 5,196 | 4,173 | 2,891 | 4,426 | 3,484 | 2,541 |
St. Giles, North | 3,872 | 3,075 | 3,082 | 1,611 | 1,021 | 1,175 | 2,261 | 2,054 | 1,907 |