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The birth-rates in certain other towns are given below:—
Towns of approximately equal
London and Greater London population to Hornsey.
London 28.00 Reading 25.87
Croydon 26.10 Wolverhampton 29.80
Willesden 32.86 Coventry 31.40
Tottenham 29.50 St. Helens 37.33
West Ham 32.16 Huddersfield 23.70
East Ham 31.70 York 28.15
Leyton 30.70 Newport 32.70
Walthamstow 32.79 Swansea 30.50
Hornsey 19.69 Stockport. 26.63
Rochdale 22.80
England and Wales 27.9
76 Great Towns 29.1
Deaths. —The total number of deaths registered within the
Borough during 1904 was 660, being 71 in excess of the number
registered in 1903.
There were also 28 deaths in the Edmonton Workhouse of
persons belonging to Hornsey, 4 deaths in the Middlesex County
Asylum at Wandsworth, and one death of a Hornsey resident in
a Hospital outside the district. These must be added to the
number of deaths registered. There are to be deducted 2 deaths
of Finchley patients in the Borough Hospital and one death, being
that of a child belonging to another district, which occurred in
one of the public institutions in the Borough.
The nett number of deaths, therefore, is 690.
This is equal to a death-rate per thousand persons living of
8.19.
This compares with a corresponding death-rate of 7.69 for
the previous year.
The death-rate for 1904 is the second lowest on record, and is
only 0.50 per thousand above the death-rate for 1903, which is the
lowest ever recorded in Hornsey.
The accompanying chart shows graphically the variations in
the death-rates for the past 23 years:—