[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Holborn Borough].

  • Holborn (London, England). Metropolitan Borough.
Date:
1929
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Credit: [Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Holborn Borough]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    14 Seasonal Mortality. The mortality in the four quarters of the year as given in the Quarterly Reports of the Registrar-General is shown below:— Deaths. Death-rate per 1,000. London Rate. First Quarter 164 15.6 14.4 Second „ 128 12.2 11.5 Third „ 99 9.4 9.1 Fourth ,, 129 12.3 11.5 520* 12.3* 11.6 Infantile Mortality. The number of deaths of children under one year of age, and the number of deaths of children under one year of age per 1,000 corrected births, were the following:— Year. Deaths under 1 year of age. Deaths under 1 year per 1000 corrected legitimate births. Deaths under 1 year per 1000 corrected illegitimate Births. Deaths under 1 year per 1000 corrected Births. London. Deaths under 1 year per 1000 Births. 1928 27 57 54 57 67 1927 19 40 19 38 59 Death-rate per 1,000 corrected births in 1928 and in ten preceding years. 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1920 1927 Avge, 1918-27 1928 Holborn Borough 141 96 66 79 72 79 81 63 90 38 80.5 57 London 107 85 75 80 74 60 69 67 64 59 74.0 67 See also Table, page 106. 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 figures, as published in the Registrar-General's Quarterly Returns for 1928, aro for the 52 weeks ended 29tli December; the complete corrections for the year 1928 increase the number of deaths to 531 and the rate to 13-S per 1,000. The corresponding rate for London was 11.6.