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Hornsey 1909
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hornsey, Borough of]
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VITAL STATISTICS OF WHOLE BOROUGH DURING 1909, AND PREVIOUS YEARS.
Name of District:—HORNSEY.
| Year | Population estimated to Middle of each Year. | Births. | Total Deaths Registered in the District. | Total Deaths in Public Institutions in the District. | Deaths of Nonresidents registered in Public Institutions in the District | Deaths of Residents registered in Public Institutions beyond the District. | Nett Deaths at all Ages belonging to the District. | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| under One Year of Age. | at all Ages. | |||||||||||
| Number. | Rate.* | |||||||||||
| Number. | Rate per 1,000 Births registered. | Number. | Rate.* | |||||||||
| Number. | Rate.* | |||||||||||
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 |
| 1899 | 67,664 | 1,461 | 21.60 | 156 | 106 | 682 | 10.08 | 8 | 5 | 17 | 694 | 10.25 |
| 1900 | 70,597 | 1,493 | 21.15 | 153 | 102 | 619 | 8.77 | 11 | 9 | 14 | 624 | 8.84 |
| 1901 | 73,549 | 1,511 | 20.55 | 127 | 84 | 597 | 8.12 | 5 | 2 | 22 | 617 | 8.34 |
| 1902 | 75,623 | 1,565 | 20.71 | 129 | 82 | 620 | 8.20 | 7 | 6 | 25 | 639 | 8.44 |
| 1903 | 78,452 | 1,561 | 19.91 | 130 | 83 | 589 | 7.51 | 13 | 7 | 22 | 604 | 7.69 |
| 1904 | 84,227 | 1,659 | 19.69 | 145 | 86 | 660 | 7.81 | 8 | 3 | 33 | 690 | 8.19 |
| 1905 | 85,213 | 1,567 | 18.38 | 106 | 67 | 607 | 7.12 | 17 | 12 | 101 | 696 | 8.16 |
| 1906 | 86,877 | 1,603 | 18.45 | 136 | 84 | 672 | 7.73 | 35 | 20 | 117 | 769 | 8.85 |
| 1907 | 90,221 | 1,524 | 16.89 | 116 | 76 | 635 | 7.03 | 26 | 18 | 149 | 766 | 8.49 |
| 1908 | 90,814 | 1,485 | 16.35 | 95 | 63 | 654 | 7.20 | 17 | 14 | 112 | 752 | 8.29 |
| Averages for years 1999-1908 | 80,323 | 1,542 | 19.36 | 129 | 83 | 633 | 7.95 | 14 | 9 | 61 | 685 | 8.55 |
| 1909 | 92,389 | 1,508 | 16.32 | 87 | 57 | 696 | 7.53 | 43 | 36 | 127 | 787 | 8.51 |
| * Rates in columns 4, 8 and 13 calculated per 1,000 of the estimated population. | ||||||||||||
Area of District in acres (exclusive of area covered by water) 2,803.442
Total population at all ages 72,056
Number of inhabited houses 12,571
Average number of persons per house 5¾
At Census
of 1901.
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| 1 institutions within the District receiving 6ick and infirm persons from outside the District. | 2 Institutions outside the District receiving sick and infirm persons from the District. | 3 Other Institutions, the deaths in which have bean distributed among the several localities in the District. |
|---|---|---|
| Isolation Hospital, Muswell Hill | Workhouse and Infirmary, Edmonton. | |
| Cromwell House Conval escent Home. | Small Pox Hospital, Summers Lane. Finchley. | |
| Santa Claus Home | ||
| All Saints' Convalescent Home. | Fever Hospital, Liverpool Road. | |
| Middlesex County Asylum, Napsbury. | ||
| Various London Hospitals. | ||
| Union Workhouse not in Borough. | ||