Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[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 acres | 405.1 | ||||
Resident population—estimated to middle of 1933 (as supplied by the Registrar-General) for birth and death rates | 36,050 | ||||
Enumerated population—Census, 1931 | 38,860 | ||||
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 Births | Total | M. | F. | 342 | |
{Legitimate | 288 | 137 | 151 | ||
{Illegitimate | 54 | 28 | 26 | ||
Annual rate of births per 1,000 estimated resident population | 9.49 | ||||
Still births Legitimate 15. Illegitimate 3 | 18 | ||||
Rate per 1,000 total births | 50 | ||||
Deaths | Males 269 | Females | 217 | 486 | |
Annual rate of deaths per 1,000 estimated resident population | 13.48 | ||||
Percentage of total deaths occurring in Public institutions | 70 | ||||
Number of women dying in, or in consequence from sepsis | 1 | ||||
of, childbirth | other causes | 0 | |||
Death rate of infants under one year of age :— All infants per 1,000 live births | 70 | ||||
Legitimate infants per 1,000 legitimate live births | 59 | ||||
Illegitimate infants per 1,000 illegitimate live births | 130 | ||||
Deaths from | measles (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 100,000 | 800 | ||||
Excess of registered births over deaths | — | ||||
Excess of registered deaths over births | 144 | ||||
• 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.