[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Holborn, Metropolitan Borough].
- Holborn (London, England). Metropolitan Borough.
- Date:
- 1909
Licence: Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0)
Credit: [Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Holborn, Metropolitan Borough]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![23 WHOOPING COUGH. Whooping cough was little prevalent during the year there having been only seven deaths registered in comparison with 27 in the preceding year and a decennial average of 17. Three of the deaths were in St. Giles and Blooms bury and four in the Holborn District. All were children under five years of age. DIARRHEA. The number of deaths from diarrhoea was 26, in comparison with a decennial average of 34. Ten belonged to St. Giles and Bloomsbury and 16 to the Holborn District. All but one were children under five years of age, 20 being under one year of age. As desired by the Local Government Board, under the heading Diarrhoea, as regards children under one year of age, all the deaths classified as diarrhœal diseases in Table V. have been included. PHTHISIS OR CONSUMPTION. The number of deaths from phthisis during the year was 105, or a death rate of 1.89 per 1,000, the lowest recorded for the Borough. Of these, 35 belonged to St. Giles and Bloomsbury, a death rate of 1.19, and 70 to the Holborn District or a death-rate of 2.68 per 1,000. Of the 105 deaths, 29 were of persons who had been removed to Infirmary from Common Lodging Houses in the Borough, 17 from St. Giles and Bloomsbury and 12 from the Holborn District. The corrected number of deaths in London was 6,419 equal to a rate of 1.32 per 1,000, being the lowest recorded. The following table gives the number of deaths in the Holborn Borough, and the rate per 1,000, and the corresponding rates for London, for the 10 years 1899-1908 inclusive:— Year. Holborn Borough. London Deaths. Rate per 1,000. Rate per 1,000 1899 207 3.12 1.85 1900 193 2.96 1 74 1901 166 2.81 1.66 1902 182 3.06 1.60 1903 170 2.94 1.55 ] 904 157 2.75 1.62 1905 149 2.65 1.42 1906 118 2.12 1.44 1907 125 2.28 1.40 1908 105 1.9 1.32](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/B18248901_0023.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
