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BOROUGH OF HORNSEY.
Summary of Statistics.
Area in acres 2,874
Rateable value (District Rate) £672,944
Population Census, 1901 72,056
1911 84,592
Estimated Population 1913 (June 30th) 88,160
Number of persons per acre, 1913 30'6
,, ,, ,, house, 1913 5.032
Estimated birth-rate per 1,000 living, 1913 16.16
Average birth-rate for previous 10 years 18.65
Estimated death-rate per 1,000 living, 1913 9.34
Average death-rate for previous 7 years 9.31
Deaths under 1 year of age, per 1,000 births, 1913 56
Average number of deaths under 1 year of age for
previous 10 years 73
Death-rate from Zymotic diseases, 1913 0.45
Average death-rate from Zymotic diseases for previous
10 years 0.60
Death-rate from Phthisis 0.62
,, ,, all forms of Tuberculosis 0.78
,, ,, Cancer 1.08
Population.—The estimated population at the middle of
1913 was 88,160. At the middle of 1912 the estimated population
was 85,522. The gain during the twelve months 1912-1913 is,
therefore, 2,638 persons, which is equal to an increase of 3'08 per
cent.
The gain during the preceding twelve months 1911-1912 was
826 persons, equal to 0'9 per cent., so that the rate of increase has
been much greater during 1912-1913 than in the preceding year,
and is the highest since the year 1903-4.
The enumerated population at the date of the last census,
April 1st, 1911, was 84,592, and the gain in the years from
the date of the Census to June 30th, 1913, has been 3,568.
The following table shows the estimated population of the
Borough at the middle of each year from 1901. These figures are
all based on the number of inhabited houses in the Borough as