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It is only for these ten years that the comparison can be
made, as for the years before 1905 the figures referring to deaths
of Hornsey people outside the Borough cannot be obtained.
The nett death-rate for 1914 is 0.54 lower than that of 1913.
During the last 10 years the death-rate has been very steady
and has kept at a very low figure.
The following table gives the death-rates for the "large
towns" of England and Wales:—
England and Wales 14.0
97 Great Towns 14.6
Hornsey 8.8
Liverpool 19.3
Middlesborough 18.9
Gateshead 18.0
Oldham 17.6
Stoke-on-Trent 17.4
Wigan 17.4
Stockton-on-Tees 17.4
Barnsley 17.3
South Shields 17.2
Plymouth 17.0
Newcastle-on-Tyne 16.9
Sunderland 16.8
St. Helens 16.7
Manchester 16.6
Salford 16.4
Sheffield 16.2
Bootle 16.1
Great Yarmouth 16.0
Dudley 16.0
Burnley 16.0
Warrington 15.8
Bury 15.8
Rochdale 15.8
Preston 15.6
Tynemouth 15.6
Wolverhampton 15.5
Bradford 15.5
West Hartlepool 15.5
Dewsbury 15.5
Swansea 15.5
West Bromwich 15.4
Rotherham 15.3
Merthyr Tyrfil 15.3
Nottingham 15.1
Hull 15.1
Birkenhead 15.0
Carlisle 14.9
Birmingham 14.8
Halifax 14.8
Leeds 14.8
West Ham 14.7
Blackburn 14.6
Walsall 14.5
Blackpool 14.5
Huddersfield 14.5
London 14.4
Grimsby 14.4
Bolton 14.4
Barrow-in-Furness 14.2
Rhondda 14.1
Wakefield 14.0
Gloucester 13.8
Leicester 13.8
Cardiff 13.8
Hastings 13.7
Southampton 13.7
Stockport 13.7
Southport 13.7
Northampton 13.6
Ipswich 13.6
Norwich 13.6
Darlington 13.4
Bristol 13.3