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

  • Holborn (London, England). Metropolitan Borough.
Date:
1928
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Credit: [Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Holborn Borough]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    13 Mortality. The total number of deaths registered as occurring in the Borough was 728, of which 426 were males and 302 females. Of these deaths the following occurred in Public Institutions, etc., within the area of the Borough:— Institution. Residents. Non-Residents. St. Giles and Bloomsbury. Holborn. St. Giles and Bloomsbury. Holborn. French Hospital 11 - 40 - Children's Hospital 2 5 — 249 National Hospital 1 4 — 104 London Homœopathic Hospital 1 7 — 78 Italian Hospital 2 4 — 28 St. Paul's Hospital — — 17 — Private — — 13 2 Total 17 20 70 461 There were 333 deaths of Civil Residents in various Workhouses, Infirmaries, Asylums, Hospitals, etc., outside the Borough, 54 of whom were removed from Common Lodging Houses in the Borough. 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 1927 gives the total deaths for the Borough as 530. Corrected Deaths and Death-Rates, 1927, compared with 1926. Year. Total Deaths at all ages registered in District. Deaths in Public Institutions in District. Deaths of non residents of Borough registered in District. Deaths of residents registered beyond the District. Nett Deaths at all ages. Death Rate for Borough Death Rate. Registration London. 1926 629 476 454 347 522* 12.1 11.6 1927 728 553 531 333 530 12.5 11.9 For details of causes of and ages at death, see Table II., page 130.