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Holborn 1908

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

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CONTENTS.
page.
Introduction 5
Registration Year 6
Birth-rates 6
Death-rates 6
Zymotic Death-rates 6
Consumption, Death-rate 6
Infectious Diseases. Prevalence of 6
,, Notification-rate 6
Anti-Diptherittc serum 6
Cerebro-spinal Fever 6
Glanders, Anthrax and Hydrophobia 6
lloyal Commission on Tuberculosis 6
Notification of Births Act, 1907 7
Cleansing of Persons Act, 1897 7
Union Buildings Area 7
London County Council (General Powers) Act, 1907 7
House Refuse, Removal of 7
Manure, Removal of 7
London County Council (General Powers) Act, 1908 7
Inspections, &c 7
Area, Houses and Population 7
Estimated Population, 1908 8
Rateable Value, 1903 9
Number of Tenements 9
Births and Birth-rates 9
Ditto ditto corrected 9
Mortality 10
Deaths Registered 10
Deaths in Public Institutions within the Borough 10
Ditto ditto outside the Borough 11
Corrected deaths and death-rates 11
Infantile Mortality 11
Care and Feeding of Infants 12
Notification of Births Act, 1907 12
Modified Milk for Infants 14
Senile Mortality 15
Deaths from Zymotic Diseases 15
Ditto ditto during 1908 and ten preceding years 16
Ditto Influenza 17
Ditto Alcoholism 17
Ditto Cancer 17
Sudden and Violent Deaths 17
Inquests 17
The Public Mortuary 18
Infectious Diseases 18
Notification of Infectious Diseases during 1908 and ten preceding years 19
Small Pox 20
Scarlet Fever 20
Ditto Secondary Cases 20
Ditto Return Cases 21
Ditto Errors in Diagnosis 21
Diphtheria 21
Ditto Secondary Cases 21
Ditto Return Cases 21
Ditto Errors in Diagnosis 21
Ditto Anti-toxin 21
Enteric Fever 22
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