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Hornsey 1905
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hornsey, Borough of]
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TABLE 1.
VITAL STATISTICS OF WHOLE BOROUGH DURING 1905 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 Nonresidents registered in Public Institutions in the District | Deaths of Residents registered in Public Institutions beyond the District. | Nett Deaths at all Ages belonging to the District. | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| under One Year of Age. | at all Ages. | |||||||||||
| Number. | Rate.1 | Number. | Rate per 1,000 Births registered. | Num ber. | Rate.* | Num ber. | Rate.* | |||||
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 |
| 1895 | 55,908 | 1,142 | 20.43 | 144 | 126 | 565 | 10.15 | 77 | 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 | 682 | 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 | 73,549 | 1,511 | 20.55 | 127 | 84 | 597 | 8.12 | 5 | 2 | 22 | 617 | 8.38 |
| 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 |
| 1904 | 84,227 | 1,659 | 19.69 | 145 | 86 | 660 | 7.81 | 8 | 3 | 33 | 690 | 8.19 |
| Averages for years 1895-1904 | 69,142 | 1,436 | 20.84 | 141 | 99 | 596 | 8.70 | 7 | 4 | 22 | 626 | 8.73 |
| 1905 | 85,213 | 1,567 | 18.38 | 106 | 67 | 607 | 7.12 | 17 | 12 | 101 | 696 | 8.16 |
* Rates in columns 4, 8 and 13 calculated per 1,000 of estimated population
Area of District in acres (exclusive of area covered by water) ... 2.863.442
Total population at all ages 72,056
Number of inhabited houses 12,571
Average number of persons per house 5¾
At Census
of 1901.
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.
2.
Institutions outside the
District receiving sick ar.d
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 Hospitals
in London
3.
Other Institutions, the
deaths in which have been
distributed among the several
localities in the District.
Union Workhouse not in Borough.