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statistics and social conditions for 1926.
Area ...
Population, (census 1921)
Estimated population (middle of 1926)
Number of inhabited houses (census 1921)
Number of private families (census 1921)
liateable value
Product of a penny rate
Births
2,874 acres.
87,691
89,850
17,333
23,353
£734,264
£3,023
Male 585
Female 621
Total 1,206
Birth-rate, 13.4 per 1,000 population.
Deaths
Male 419
Female 509
Total 928
Death-rate, 10.6 per 1,000 population.
Standardized death-rate, 9.5.
Death-rate of Infants under one year of age per 1,000
births 47.2
Death-rate from Tuberculosis (all forms) per 1,000
living 0.76
Death-rate from Zymotic Disease per 1,000 living ... 0.17
open spaces.
Hornsey is singularly fortunate not only in possessing a very
considerable acreage of permanent open, spaces, but also in having
just beyond its boundaries such pleasure grounds as Hampstead
Heath, Parliament Hill Fields, Ken Wood, Alexandra Park and
Waterlow Park, covering altogether an area of more than 700
acres. Public open spaces amount to 11 per cent, of the total
acreage of the Borough, one of the highest percentages to be
found among the great towns of England and Wales. It is
impossible to over-estimate the importance to health of these
open spaces in a district now almost completely developed. In
addition, Hornsey owns 17 acres of permanent and 22 acre® of
temporary allotments, while some 64 acres of Highgate golf