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Holborn 1937
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Holborn Borough]
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The deaths are further corrected by the Registrar-General by the inclusion of
all deaths registered in the calendar year as distinct from the registration year of
52 weeks. This correction, together with deaths transferred from extra
Metropolitan Institutions, accounts for the variation in the number of deaths
given in the four quarterly reports of the Registrar-General and in his Annual
Report. The final correction supplied by the Registrar-General for 1937 gives
the total deaths for the Borough as 410.
Corrected Deaths and Death-Rates, 1937, compared with 1936.
| Year. | Total Deaths at all ages registered in District. | Deaths in Public Institutions in District. | Deaths of nonresidents of Borough registered in District. | Deaths of residents registered beyond the District. | Net Deaths at all ages. | Death Rate for Borough.(crude). | Death Bate for Borough.(adjusted). | Death Kate for London |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1937 | 715 | 605 | 585 | 280 | 410 | †1l.85 | 12.68 | 12.3 |
| 1936 | 731 | 606 | 586 | 273 | 418 | †11.99 | 12.83 | 12.5 |
For details of causes of and ages at death (see Table II, page 87).
The number of deaths of children under one year of age, and the number oi deaths of children under one year of age per 1,000 corrected births, were the following:—
| Year. | Deaths under 1 year of age. | Deaths of legitimate infants under 1 year per 1000 corrected legitimate Births. | Deaths of illegitimate infants under 1 year per 1000 corrected illegitimate Births. | Deaths, all infants, under 1 year per 1000 corrected Births. | London. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Deaths under 1 year per 1000 Births. | |||||
| 1937 | 22 | 79 | 75 | 79 | 60 |
| 1936 | 18 | 47 | 187.5 | 62 | 66 |
Death-rate per 1,000 corrected births in 1937 and in ten preceding years.
| 1927 | 1928 | 1929 | 1930 | 1931 | 1932 | 1933 | 1934 | 1935 | 1936 | Avge. '1927-36 | 1937 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Holborn Borough | 38 | 57 | 74 | 89 | 74 | 72 | 70 | 71 | 88 | 62 | 70.5 | 79 |
| London | 59 | 67 | 70 | 59 | 65 | 67 | 59 | 67 | 58 | 66 | 63.7 | 60 |
See also Table, page 86.
The figures on which the rates given in the Registrar-General's Quarterly
Reports are based are necessarily only partly corrected; the final correction
including the transference of births in institutions to the residential area of the
parents is made before the publication of the Registrar-General's Annual Report.
† These rates are calculated on the Registrar-General's estimated population at the middle of
the year 1936 and 1937 respectively.
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