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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Hornsey 1914
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hornsey, Borough of]
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The death-rate calculated per thousand of the population from these diseases is the Zymotic death-rate, and is shewn below in Hornsey and in England and Wales for a number of years:—
| Zymotic death-rate | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Hornsey. | England and Wales. | 97 Great Towns | |
| 1914 | 0.46 | ||
| 1913 | 0.45 | ||
| 1912 | 0.35 | 0.83 | 1.04 |
| 1911 | 0.92 | 1.87 | 2.27 |
| 1910 | 0.32 | 0.99 | 1.23 |
| 1909 | 0.45 | 1.28 | 1.42 |
| 1908 | 0.55 | 1.34 | 1.59 |
| 1907 | 0.53 | 1.13 | 1.54 |
| 1906 | 0.94 | 1.73 | 2.24 |
| 1905 | 0.47 | 1.94 | |
| 1904 | 0.87 | 1.94 | |
| 1903 | 0.63 | 1.46 | |
| 1902 | 0.47 | 1.64 | |
| 1901 | 0.54 | 2.05 | |
| 1900 | 0.66 | 2.00 | |
| 1899 | 0.89 | 2.21 | |
| 1898 | 0.74 | 2.22 | |
| 1897 | 0.98 | 2.15 | |
| 1896 | 0.93 | 2.18 | |
| 1895 | 1.11 | 2.14 | |
| 1894 | 1.12 | 2.25 | |
| 1893 | 0.96 | 3.16 | |
| 1892 | 0.94 | 2.76 | |
| 1891 | 0.70 | ||
| 1890 | 1.15 | ||
| 1889 | 0.60 | ||
| 1888 | 1.05 | ||
| 1887 | 0.88 | ||
| 1886 | 1.42 | ||
| 1885 | 1.80 | ||
| 1884 | 1.91 | ||
| 1883 | 1.05 | ||
| 1882 | 1.77 | ||
The Registrar-General has ceased to calculate the Zymotic
death-rate as a whole. I am, therefore, unable to compare our
Zymotic death-rate with those of England and Wales, and the 97
Great Towns.