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Holborn 1933

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Holborn Borough]

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STATISTICS AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS. Statistical Summary, 1933.

Area of Borough in acres405.1
Resident population—estimated to middle of 1933 (as supplied by the Registrar-General) for birth and death rates36,050
Enumerated population—Census, 193138,860
Number of inhabited houses (1931)6,462
Number of private families or separate occupiers (1931) ...9,355
Rateable value 1st November, 1933£1,717,507
Rate of Id. in the £ estimated to yield£6,526
Live BirthsTotalM.F.342
{Legitimate288137151
{Illegitimate542826
Annual rate of births per 1,000 estimated resident population9.49
Still births Legitimate 15. Illegitimate 318
Rate per 1,000 total births50
DeathsMales 269Females217486
Annual rate of deaths per 1,000 estimated resident population13.48
Percentage of total deaths occurring in Public institutions70
Number of women dying in, or in consequence from sepsis1
of, childbirthother causes0
Death rate of infants under one year of age :— All infants per 1,000 live births70
Legitimate infants per 1,000 legitimate live births59
Illegitimate infants per 1,000 illegitimate live births130
Deaths frommeasles (all ages)1
,, ,,diphtheria (all ages)3
,, ,,whooping cough (all ages)0
,, ,,diarrhoea (under two years of ago)6
Zymotic death rate*0.17
Tuberculosis, all causes, death-rate per 100,000800
Excess of registered births over deaths
Excess of registered deaths over births144
• Excluding deaths from Epidemic diarrhœa.

Population and Houses.
The Census of England and Wales 1931, was taken on thp night of the
20th-27th April of that year.
Enumerated Ponulation.

The enumerated ponulation of Holborn was as follows: —

Males. Females.Persons.
Census,1931 ...18,187 20,07338,800
Census,1921 ...20,732 22,40043.192
Dccrcasc 4,332=10%,P