Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hornsey, Borough of]
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It is only for these nine years that the comparison can be
made, as for the years before 1905 the figures referring to deaths
of Hornsey people outside the Borough cannot be obtained.
The nett death-rate for 1913 is 0'48 lower than that of 1912.
During the last 9 years the death-rate lias been very steady
and has kept at a very low figure.
The following table gives the death-rates for the "large towns " of England and Wales:—
England and Wales | 137 | ||
96 Great Towns | 143 | ||
Hornsey | 9.3 | Newcast,le-on-Tyne | 15.0 |
St. Helens | 18.8 | Bradford | 14.9 |
Stoke-on-Trent | 18.6 | Hull | 14.8 |
Wigan | 18.3 | Carlisle | 14.8 |
Stockton-on-Tees | 18.1 | Birmingham | 14.7 |
Liverpool | 18.0 | West Ham | 14.5 |
Sunderland | 17.8 | Blackpool | 14.5 |
Middlesbrough | 17.6 | Barrow-in-Furness | 14.5 |
West Bromwich | 17.6 | Great Yarmouth | 14.4 |
South Shields | 17.5 | Birkenhead | 14.4 |
Bootle | 17.1 | Huddersfield | 14.4 |
Preston | 17.0 | Gateshead | 14.4 |
Walsall | 16.8 | Swansea | 14.3 |
Dudley | 16.8 | Loudon | 14.2 |
Oldham | 16.8 | Nottingham | 14.1 |
Dewsbury | 16.8 | Rhondda | 14.0 |
Burnley | 16.5 | Norwich | 13.9 |
Aberdare | 16.3 | Darlington | 13.8 |
West Hartlepool | 16.1 | Brighton | 13.6 |
Barnsley | 15.9 | Ipswich | 13.6 |
Salford | 15.8 | Gloucester | 13.5 |
Bolton | 15.7 | Wakefield | 13.5 |
Sheffield | 15.7 | Cardiff | 13.4 |
Plymouth | 15.6 | Smethwick | 13.3 |
Wolverhampton | 15.6 | Leicester | 13.3 |
Manchester | 15.6 | Merthyr Tydfil | 13.3 |
Blackburn | 15.6 | Bath | 13.1 |
Warrington | 15.5 | Grimsby | 13.0 |
Stockport | 15.4 | Hastings | 12.8 |
Halifax | 15.4 | Southampton | 12.7 |
Leeds | 15.4 | Bristol | 12.7 |
Tynemouth | 15.3 | Newport (Mon.) | 12.7 |
Bury | 15.1 | Northampton | 12.6 |
Rochdale | 15.0 | South port | 12.6 |
Rotherham | 15.0 | Oxford | 12.5 |