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BOROUGH OF HORNSEY,
Summary of Statistics.
Area in acres 2,874
Rateable value £603,431
Population Census 1901 72,056
Estimated Population 1904 84,227
Number of persons per acre, 1904 29.4
„ „ „ house, 1904 5.741
Estimated birth-rate per 1,000 living, 1904 19.69
Average birth-rate for previous 10 years 21.04
Estimated death-rate per 1,000 living, 1904 8.19
Average death-rate for previous 7 years 8.77
Deaths under 1 year of age, per 1,000 births, 1904 86
Death-rate from Zymotic diseases 1904 0.81
Infectious Disease (Notification) Act, 1889, adopted October, 1889.
Infectious Disease (Prevention) Act, 1890, adopted October, 1890.
Public Health Acts Amendment Act, 1890, Parts 2, 3 and 5
adopted October, 1890.
Housing of the Working Classes Act, 1890, Part 3, adopted July,
1896.
Population.—In a suburban district like Hornsey it becomes
increasingly difficult to form a correct estimate of the population
the longer the period which has elapsed since the census
year.
The method adopted by the Registrar General for estimating
the population is based on the assumption that the present rate of