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Islington 1908
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Islington, Metropolitan Borough of]
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RATEABLE VALUE, 1908.
| Bloomsbury and St. Giles | £594,456 |
| Holborn | £459,061 |
| Holborn Borough | £1,053,517 |
NUMBER OF TENEMENTS.
At the Census of 1901, the total number of tenements in the Holborn Borough
was 13,790. As large a proportion as 37.5 per cent. of the population lived in
tenements of one or two rooms, and 60.1 per cent. of the population lived in tenements
of one to four rooms.
There were 3,725 tenements of 1 room.
„ 3,834 „ 2 rooms.
2,224 „ 3 „
989 „ 4 „
REGISTERED BIRTHS AND BIRTH-RATES.
| Both Sexes. | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| District. | Males. | Females. | Legitimate. | Illegitimate. | Total. | Birth rate per 1,000. |
| St. Giles and Bloomsbury | 509 | 902 | 64 | 96 | 33.0 | |
| Holborn | 295 | 282 | 564 | 13 | 577 | 22.1 |
| Whole Borough | 804 | 739 | 1,466 | 77 | 1,543 | 27.8 |
CORRECTED BIRTHS AND BIRTH-RATES
The Registrar-General gave permission at the latter part of the year 1904
for details of births to be supplied by the Sub-Registrars. These details were at
once supplied to us, so that I have been able since then to exclude the births of
infants whose mothers were "non-residents."
Of the 966 registered births in St. Giles and Bloomsbury, a large proportion
of which took place at the British Lying-in Hospital, Endell Street, as many as
527 were of infants whose mothers were non-residents in the Borough.
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