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Population.—The population of the Borough, estimated by
the Registrar-General's method, was 88,325 in 1923.
As I pointed out in my last Report, the taking of the Census
in Mid-summer, 1921, decreased our population figure, as many
of our inhabitants were away from the Borough at that tune.
The estimate of the present-day population, given above, which
is worked out from the Census figures, is probably therefore an
under - estimation. We shall not be able to arrive with
accuracy at the figure of our ordinary population until the census
is taken at a time when people are at home and not on holidays.
Aye and Sex Distribution.—I reported at some length on this
subject last year, pointing out that the Borough had an excess
of females over males, which was due in part no doubt to the
number of domestic servants. There is also an excess of elderly
people in the district—about eight thousand more than we had
twenty years ago.
Necessarily these tend to add to the death-rate; but, on the
other hand, they demonstrate by their old age that Hornsey is
a healthy town in which to live.
Table (M.) at the end of this Report shows the age and sex
distribution and the condition as to marriage of the people in
the Borough.
Occupations and Industries.— There are no dangerous or
offensive trades conducted in the Borough, and but few of the
inhabitants work elsewhere at injurious occupations.
The day employments of the night residents of Hornsey are
many and varied, and an abridged list is given in the Appendix
to this Report, Table (O.). A scrutiny of the detailed census
returns relating to occupations is remarkably interesting. There
is, for example, no organ-grinder resident in Hornsey, but there
are two female bookmakers! We have seventy-two dentists, of
whom three are women, and eighty doctors are resident in the
Borough.
Movements of Population.—For the first time the RegistrarGeneral,
as the results of the Census enquiry, has been able to
give an account of the daily movements of population in the