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The Metropolitan Borough of Holborn.
REPORT
of the
Medical Officer of Health
For the Year 1908.
PUBLIC HEALTH DEPARTMENT,
197, HIGH HOLBORN, W.C.
To the Mayor, Aldermen and Councillors of the
Metropolitan Borough of Holborn.
Gentlemen,
In this Annual Report for the year 1908, the various statistics for the year refer
to the fifty-three weeks ended Saturday, January 2nd, 1909, as adopted by the
Registrar-General, and known as the Registration year.
The death statistics do not exactly correspond with those of the RegistrarGeneral
for the following reasons: The Holborn Union includes the area of the old
Holborn District Board of Works, Clerkenwell and St. Luke's. In many of the
deaths registered in outlying public institutions the only address given is that of
the Union, and from enquiries respecting these deaths which I have made of
the authorities of the public institutions, I have ascertained that the previous
addresses of the deceased before removal to the public institutions were not in this
Borough, and these deaths, although returned by the Registrars as belonging to this
Borough, have therefore been excluded.
The various birth and death rates have been corrected as far as possible by
the exclusion of births and deaths of "non-residents" occurring in the Borough,
and the inclusion of those of "residents" occurring in institutions outside the
Borough.