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Report of the Medical Officer.
To the South Hornsey District Council.
Gentlemen,
The number of deaths registered in the District of South Hornsey
during the year 1894 was 200, and consisted of 98 males and 102
females; this is equal to a deathrate of 11.6 per 1000 persons
living in South Hornsey at the close of the year. I consider the
population to be 17,170—of these 200 deaths from all causes 17
died in various institutions without the district.
The Births during the year were 896, 212 of these were
females and 184 males. The birth-rate for the year was 23.0
per 1000. The births exceeded the deaths by 196. The deaths
therefore for the year 1894 were 26 less than in 1893. The
births also were less, being 11 below that of 1893.
In London the death-rate was 16.6
and in the outer ring 18.0
The birth-rate in London was 29.6
and in the outer ring 28.3
In the 200 deaths from all causes were included 27 from the
Zymotic class of diseases 10 of which were from Diphtheria, 10
Croup, 5 Diarrhoea, 3 Whooping Cough, 2 Typhoid Fever. In
the last quarter of the year only 4 deaths occurred from this
class of disease. The Zymotic death-rate for the year was 13.5
per cent of the deaths and 1.5 to every 1000 persons living.
The Zymotic death-rate in London for the year was 2.66 and in
the outer ring 1.89.
The number of Infants that died undor 1 year of age was 48,
which is equal to a death-rate of 2.5 per 1000 and 11.0 per cent
of the deaths; in 1893 the Infantile death-rate was 3.3 per 1000,
or 14.7 per cent of the death-rate. 62 persons died at the age
of 60 years and above, in the previous year they were 63.
The number of Infectious diseases notified during 1894 was
86—42 or nearly half of these were cases of Diphtheria, 20
Scarlet Fever, and 8 Typhoid. Four of the latter were in December.
I was unable to trace the origin of any of these cases, though
two were attributed to eating oysters and the one case certainly
appeared as though such might have been the case. The gentleman
having taken oysters at a Restaurant with a friend living on the