Report of the Medical Officer of Health for the year ending December 31st, 1896.

  • Holborn (London, England). Board of Works.
Date:
1897
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Credit: Report of the Medical Officer of Health for the year ending December 31st, 1896. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    10 BIRTHS. The total number of births registered during the 53 weeks ending January 2nd, 1897, were 895, giving a birth-rate of 28.3. The corresponding rate for the whole of Registration London was 30.2. The Registrar General states that this is the lowest London birth-rate on record. DEATHS. The total number of deaths of persons in the district, after making the usual corrections (i.e. excluding those of persons who died in public institutions, who did not belong to the district, and including those of persons who belong to the district, but died in public institutions outside the district), for the 53 weeks was 709, giving a corrected death-rate of 22.4 per thousand. The corresponding rate for London was 18.2. If correction be made for age and sex distribution, the death-rate of Holborn was 24.3 per 1000. DEATHS OF CHILDREN UNDER ONE YEAR OF AGE. There were 169 deaths of children under one year of age; that is, the number of deaths of children under one year of age to 1,000 births was 189. The corresponding rate for London was 161 per 1,000 births. GLASSHOUSE YARD. During the year there were registered 16 births and 10 deaths. Details are given in the Tables. CAUSES OF DEATH. The following table shows, in a summary form, the amount of life in the whole of London saved, and the amount lost in the year, com pared with the mean annual mortality of the preceding ten years, under each of the more important causes. London:—Diminution of excess of deaths in 1896 compared with the average annual deaths in 1896-95, corrected for increase of popu lation:—
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