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STATISTICS AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS
Statistical Summary, 1934
Area of Borough in acres 405'1
Resident population—estimated to middle of 1934 (as supplied by
the Registrar-General) for birth and death rates 36,000
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 October, 1934 £1,747,495
Rate of Id in the £, estimated to yield £6,640
Total M. F.
Live Births Legitimate 274 151 123 309
Illegitimate 35 19 16
Annual rate of births per 1,000 estimated resident population 8.58
Still births Legitimate 5 Illegitimate 1 6
Rate per 1,000 total births 19
Deaths Males 230 Females 210 440
Annual death rate per 1,000 estimated resident population (crude) 12.2
,, ,, ,, ,, ,, (adjusted) 1305
Percentage of total deaths occurring in Public institutions 73
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 712
Legitimate infants per 1,000 legitimate live births 66
Illegitimate infants per 1,000 illegitimate live births 114
Deaths from measles (all ages) 4
,, ,, typhoid fever 1
,, „ diphtheria (all ages) 5
„ „ whooping cough (all ages) 2
„ „ diarrhoea (under two years of age) 4
Zymotic death rate* 0.33
Tuberculosis, all causes, death-rate per 100,000 88.8
Excess of registered births over deaths —
Excess of registered deaths over births 131
* Excluding deaths from Epidemic diarrhoea
Population and Houses
The Census of England and Wales 1931, was taken on the night of the
26th-27th April of that year
The enumerated population of Holborn was as follows —
Males Females Persons
Census, 1931 18,187 20,673 38,860
Census, 1921 20,732 22,460 43,192
Decrease 4,832=10%
The estimated population as given by the Registrar-General at the middle of
1934 was 36,000