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Hornsey 1904
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hornsey, Borough of]
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TABLE 1.
VITAL STATISTICS OF WHOLE BOROUGH DURING 1904 AND PREVIOUS YEARS.
Name of District:—HORNSEY.
| Year | Population estimated to Middle of each Year. | Births. | Total Deaths Registered in the District. | Total Deaths in Public Institutions in the District. | Deaths of Non-residents registered in Public Institutions in the District | Deaths of Residents registered in Public Institu tions beyond the District. | Net deaths at all ages to the distric. | Nett Deaths at all Ages belonging to the | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| under One Year of Age. | ||||||||||||
| Number. | Rate.* | Number. | Rate per 1,000 Births registered. | Number. | Rate.* | Number. | Rate.* | |||||
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 |
| 1894 | 52,977 | 1,186 | 22.38 | 103 | 86 | 499 | 9.42 | 11 | 4 | |||
| 1895 | 55,908 | 1,142 | 20.43 | 144 | 126 | 565 | 10.15 | 7 | 2 | |||
| 1896 | 58,839 | 1,294 | 21.99 | 133 | 102 | 523 | 8.88 | 6 | 1 | |||
| 1897 | 61,818 | 1,337 | 21.64 | 138 | 103 | 528 | 8.54 | 3 | 5 | 25 | 548 | 8.86 |
| 1898 | 64,743 | 1,342 | 20.74 | 158 | 117 | 579 | 8.94 | 9 | 7 | 22 | 594 | 9.22 |
| 1899 | 67,664 | 1,461 | 21.60 | 156 | 106 | 68.2 | 10.08 | 8 | 5 | 17 | 694 | 10.25 |
| 1900 | 70,597 | 1,493 | 21.15 | 153 | 102 | 619 | 8.77 | 11 | 9 | 14 | 624 | 8.84 |
| 1901 | 73,649 | 1,511 | 20.55 | 127 | 84 | 597 | 8.12 | 5 | 2 | 22 | 617 | 838 |
| 1902 | 75,623 | 1,565 | 20.71 | 129 | 82 | 620 | 8.20 | 7 | 6 | 25 | 639 | 8.44 |
| 1903 | 78,452 | 1,561 | 19.91 | 130 | 83 | 589 | 7.51 | 13 | 7 | 22 | 604 | 7.69 |
| Averages for years 1894-1903 | ii6,017 | 1,389 | 21.04 | 137 | 98 | 580 | 8.78 | 8 | 4 | — | 617 | 8.77 |
| 1904 | 84,227 | 1,659 | 19.69 | 145 | 86 | 660 | 7.81 | 8 | 3 | 33 | 690 | 8.19 |
*Rates in columns 4, 8 and 13 calculated per 1,000 of estimated population.
1.
Institutions within the District
receiving sick and infirm
persons from outside
the District.
Isolation Hospital, Muswell
Hill.
Cromwell House Convalescent
Home.
Santa Claus Home.
All Saints' Convalescent
Home.
Union Workhouse not in Borough.
Area of District in acres (exclusive of area covered by water) 2,863.441
Total population at all ages 72,0561
Number of inhabited houses 12,571
Average number of persons per house 5¾
At Census
of 1901.
2.
Institutions outside the
District receiving sick and
infirm persons from the
District.
Workhouse and Infirmary,
Edmonton.
Small Pox Hospital,
Summers Lane, Finchley.
Fever Hospital, Liverpool
Road.
Middlesex County Asylum,
Wandsworth.
The various general
Hospitals in London.
3.
Other Institutions, the
deaths in which have been
distributed among the several
localities in the District.