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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
Edmonton 1905
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Edmonton]
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TABLE I.
Vital Statistics of Whole District during 1905 and 10 previous years.
| Year. | Population estimated to Middle of each Year. | Births. | Deaths under One Year of Age. | Deaths at all Ages. Total. | Deaths in Public Institutions. | Deaths of Non-residents registered in the District. | Deaths of Residents registered beyond District. | Deaths at all Ages. Nett. | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number. | Rate.1 | Number. | Rate per 1,000 Births registered. | Number. | Rate.* | Number. | Rate.* | |||||
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 |
| 1895 | 30,080 | 1024 | 32.25 | 116 | 122.65 | 608 | 20.2 | 243 | 196 | 424 | 13.95 | |
| 1896 | 31,888 | 1020 | 30.57 | 169 | 153.68 | 691 | 21.6 | 253 | 208 | 17 | 500 | 15.6 |
| 1897 | 33.804 | 1139 | 32.5 | 163 | 157.18 | 704 | 20.8 | 291 | 201 | 39 | 542 | 15.95 |
| 1898 | 35.836 | 1148 | 31.03 | 217 | 19584 | 783 | 21.8 | 272 | 221 | 44 | 606 | 16.81 |
| 1899 | 39,523 | 1146 | 34.9 | 242 | 161.87 | 831 | 21.0 | 207 | 32 | 688 | 17.4 | |
| 1900 | 47,166 | 1606 | 34.0 | 30.1 | 168.1 | 983 | 20.8 | 3.7 | 268 | 42 | 757 | 16.0 |
| 1901 | 44,911 | 1640 | 36.5 | 271 | 139.0 | 787 | 15 2 | 233 | 183 | 70 | 674 | 15.0 |
| 1902 | 50,388 | 1747 | 34.67 | 251 | 143-67 | 1006 | 199 | 270 | 161 | 56 | 901 | 17.88 |
| 1903 | 52,39 | 1846 | 35.4 | 259 | 140.3 | 844 | 15.6 | 248 | 194 | 74 | 724 | 13,7 |
| 1904 | 53,358 | 1891 | 35.4 | 306 | 161.8 | 1050 | 18.9 | 361 | 298 | 93 | 845 | 15.8 |
| Averages 1895-1904 | 41,909 | 1420 | 33.8 | 229 | 161.2 | 828 | 19.7 | 268 | 210 | 48 | 666 | 15.8 |
| 1905 | 54,606 (a) | 1947 (b) | 35.6 | 250 (c) | 128.0 | 868 | 15 2 (d) | 304 | 248 | 108 | 728 | 13.3 |
* Rates in columns 4, 8 and 13 calculated per 1,000 of estimated corrected
population. (See Note d).
The deaths included in column 7 of this table are the whole of those
registered during the year as having actually occurred within the district.
The deaths included in column 12 are the number in column 7, corrected
by the subtraction of the number in column 10 and the addition of the number
in column, 11
By the term "Non-residents" is meant persons brought into the district on
account of sickness or infirmity, and dying in public institutions there; and by
the term "residents" is meant persons who have been taken out of the district
on account of sickness or infirmity, and have died in public institutions elsewhere
Returns under this head are obtained by the Medical Officer by
arrangement with the Registrars of the London District and of the districts of
Tottenham and Enfield.
Notes.—(a) The estimated population of the district corrected by excluding
non-residents in the two workhouses.
(b) Births registered in the district uncorrected for Institutions
(c) Corrected for Institutions, and including residents dying outside
the district.
(d) Calculated on the gross population (inclusive of Institutions) 56,758.
Area of District in acres (exclusive of area covered by water) 3,890.
Total population at all ages, excluding Union Workhouses—44,911
Number of inhabited houses—7,795
Average number of persons per house—5.76.
At Census
of 1901.
I.—Institutions within the
District receiving sick and infirm
persons from outside the
District.
Edmonton Union
Workhouse Infirmary.
Strand Union Workhouse
Infirmary.
II —Institutions outside the
District receiving sick and infirm
persons from the District.
Enfield Fever Hospital.
South Mimms
Small Pox Hospital.
Middlesex County Asylum
III - Other Institutions, the
deaths in which have been
distributed among the several
localities in the District.
Tottenham Hospital.
Metropolitan General
Hospitals, &c.