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The chief occupations of the day population of the Borough are connected with
Professions (Law, Architecture, etc.); Public Societies' and Commercial offices;
Hotels and Boarding Houses; Printing and Bookbinding; Metal Refining; Precious
Stones and general trades and businesses.
The population in the 999 L.C.C. tenements in the Borough was estimated
at 3,493. The number of deaths was 27 or a death-rate of 7.7 per 1,000;
considerably below the average death-rate for the whole of the Borough (13.3).
On the other hand the number of deaths of residents of Common Lodging
Houses in the Borough, which contain 1,220 beds was 47 which, calculated on
the number of beds, was a rate of 38 per 1,000.
Foreign Residents in Holborn.
At the Census, 1921, there were 4,652 foreign residents or visitors in the
Borough. Of these 227 were British subjects by birth and 259 British subjects
by naturalisation.

Registered Births and Birth-Rate.
The total number of births registered as occurring in the Borough was 485,
(276 males and 209 females). Of the 485, 461 were legitimate and 24 illegitimate.
The registered birth rate per 1,000) of the population was 11.3.
Corrected Births and Birth-Rate.
I received from the "Registrar-General information of the births in outlying
institutions in London of 149 legitimate infants and 44 illegitimate infants whose
mothers were residents of the Borough. Fourteen of the births occurring in the
Borough, viz. 8 legitimate births and 6 illegimate births, were infants of mothers
who were non-residents of the Borough.