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In this calculation five deaths which occurred at the Isolation
Hospital in the Muswell Hill Ward were taken from the number of
deaths occurring in that Ward and added to the deaths in the Hornsey
Ward from which the patients were received. One of the deaths in the
Highate Ward was that of a child at Cromwell House.
For the year 1895 the deaths in the Highgate Ward were 86,
giving a death-rate of 116 per 1,000 inhabitants, against 76 or 8.73
for 1890 ; for Muswell Hill Ward 14 deaths or 6.8 death-rate, against
20 and 9 03 for 1896; for Crouch End Ward 25 deaths or 5.94 deathrate,
against 27 and 5.77 for 1896; for Hornsey Ward 162 deaths or
13.9 death-rate, against 139 and 10.04 for 1896 ; for North Haringey
Ward 102 deaths or 11.7 death-rate, against 82 and 8.19 for 1896 ; for
South Haringey Ward 33 deaths or 6.49 death-rate, against 51 and 8.52
for 1896; for Stroud Green Ward 55 deaths or 714 death-rate, against
62 and 6 8 for 1896; and for Finsbury Park Ward 88 deaths or 12.6
death-rate, against 66 and 8 75 for 1896.
This shows that there is a decrease in the number of deaths in
four Wards, when compared with 1895, namely, of 10 in Highgate,
23 in Hornsey, 20 in North Haringey and 22 in Finsbury Park, making
a total of 75 ; whilst on the other hand there was increased mortality in
the remaining four Wards, to the extent of 6 in Muswell Hill, 2 in
Crouch End. 18 in South Haringey, and 7 in Stroud Green. From
this it will be seen that, while the increased deaths amount to 75, and
the decrease to 33, there is in the aggregate a decrease of 42 deaths,
the totals amounting in 1896 to 523, and in 1895 to 565.
The difference in the death-rates of the various Wards, on a comparison
of the two years, leads to the inquiry whether any special
reasons can be assigned for the increased or lessened mortality, and,
after carefully considering this question, I have come to the conclusion
that no such special reasons can be found, and that the differences are
merely such as are incidental to comparisons made of two years only,
and which would in great probability not occur (at any rate to so great
an extent) when an average, say, of 10 years is taken. As the District
was only divided into Wards in 1894, the Ward death-rate was first
calculated in 1895, so that at the present time comparison with one
year only can be made.
In analysing these Ward death-rates it will be found that, where,
in 1896, there is a smaller mortality, the figures compare with