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The Health Committee can be satisfied that the Exhibition has helped
to remind the people of Hornsey of their important work in the life of
the Borough and the high visual interest of the Exhibition generally
impressed the schoolchildren many of whom attended on second and
third occasions even during their half-term holiday.
Comment was made on the value of the Health Department as an
advisory centre in so many matters directly concerned with family life.
THE CENSUS 1951
Population
The 1951 population for Hornsey which is now given as 98,159 shows
an increase of 2,743 on 1931 (95,416). This was the number of persons
actually staying in Hornsey on the night of the census. Adjustments
were made by the Registrar General for persons normally domiciled
outside the Borough and his estimate of the Hornsey population at
30th June, 1951 was 98,890. This figure is the "Home Population"
which includes British and Allied armed forces stationed in Hornsey
but not Hornsey residents serving elsewhere. As there are no members
of the forces stationed in the Borough the true population was probably
approximately 500 in excess of that figure. The latest estimate of the
Registrar General gives a population of 98,510 for 30th June, 1953.
While the County of Middlesex as a whole has increased its population,
a decline is shown in the populations of the London County
Council area and some of the Middlesex boroughs immediately adjoining.
The steady outward movement of population has led to the growth
of districts on the outer fringes, and many of the 1931 Hornsey residents
have moved to these outer districts and in their places have come residents
from Central London where the fall in population has been most
noticeable. Of the 1951 Hornsey population only 24,544 were born in
the County of Middlesex and 41,408 were born in London.
For every 1,000 males in Hornsey there are 1,225 females as compared
with 1,126 in the whole of the County. This figure is described in the
notes on the report as an "abnormally high sex ratio"—Finchley and
Southgate have slightly higher ratios but in all other areas in the County
the ratio is well below 1,200.
Age Distribution
In common with the national trend the proportion of older persons
in Hornsey has increased considerably since the 1931 census. Although
there is only a slight reduction in the working age-group 15-64 taken
as a whole, there are now fewer persons within the lower ages of the
group. The increase in the numbers under 5 years reflects the exceptionally
high birth rates in 1946 and 1947.
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