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A NOTE ON THE DEATH RATE
The death rate in Hornsey for the year was 11.0 per 1,000 of the
population—0.6 per 1,000 less than in 1952.
For true comparison of this rate with previous years adjustments
must be made for the change in the allocation of deaths made by the
Registrar General.
From 1st January, 1953 deaths which occurred in certain institutions
were allocated for statistical purposes, to the area in which the institution
is situated. This arrangement was the result of a circular from the
General Register Office (G.R.O. Circular (M.O.H.) No. 4/1952) which
set out the revised arrangements for allocation of returns of births, deaths
and still births.
As a result all deaths occurring in 26 old people's homes in the Borough
are now allocated against Hornsey and during 1953, 94 deaths occurring
in those homes together with 16 residents who died in hospitals were
allocated to the Borough. If the practice of previous years had been
followed these would have been transferred to the boroughs in which
the old persons last lived and Hornsey's total deaths would have been
873, a rate of 8.8 per thousand of the population. It is true that a
number of ex-Hornsey residents died in institutions outside the Borough
and were therefore not "transferred in" but experience shows that the
number is likely to be small.
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