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Holborn 1921
Report for the year 1921 of the Medical Officer of Health
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On the other hand the number of deaths of residents of Common Lodging Houses
in the Borough, which contain 1,220 beds was 55 which, calculated on the number of
beds, was a rate of 45 per 1,000.
Registered Births and Birth-Rate.
The total number of births registered as occurring in the Borough was 486,
being 262 males and 224 females. Of the 486, 465 were legitimate and 21 illegitimate.
The registered birth-rate per 1,000 of the population was II.2.
Corrected Births and Birth-Rate.
I received from the Registrar-General information of the births in outlying
institutions in London of 145 legitimate infants and 36 illegitimate infants whose
mothers were residents of the Borough. Nineteen of the births occurring in the
Borough, viz., 17 legitimate births and 2 illegitimate births, were infants of mothers
who were non-residents of the Borough.
The following table gives the number of corrected births and the corrected birth-rate for the ten years 1912-1921:—
| 1913 | 798 | 16 .9 | 743 | 15.8 | 55 | 1.1 |
| 1914 | 765 | 16.4 | 705 | 151 | 60 | 1.3 |
| 1915 | 670 | 14.4 | 616 | 13.2 | 54 | 1.2 |
| 1916 | 649 | 15.7 | 585 | 141 | 64 | 1.6 |
| 1917 | 571 | 14.5 | 496 | 12.6 | 75 | 1.9 |
| 1918 | 497 | 12.1 | 428 | 10.4 | 69 | 1.7 |
| 1919 | 539 | 13.6 | 477 | 12.0 | 62 | 1.6 |
| 1920 | 827 | 20.8 | 749 | 18.9 | 78 | 1.9 |
| 1921 | 648 | 14 .8 | 593 | 13 6 | 55 | 1.2 |
In London the corrected birth-rate in 1921 was 22.3 per 10,00 in comparison
with 26 5 for 1920.
| Of these deaths the following occurred in Public Institutions, etc., within the area of the Borough:— |
which 471 were males and 388 females.
Of these deaths the following occurred in Public Institutions, etc., within the
area of the Borough:—