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District was as follows: Southgate, 4,550; New Southgate,
4,400; Winchmore Hill, 3,400; and Palmers Green and Bowes,
6,650.
The natural increase of the population by excess of births
over deaths was 270.
BIRTHS.—BIRTH-RATE.
During the year 441 births were registered, an increase of
74 on the preceding year. This gives a birth-rate of 23.4 per
1,000 of the population.
The average rate for the 10 years, 1894 to 1903, was 24.6.
The birth-rate of England and Wales in 1904 was 27.9,
which is lower than the rate in any other year on record, and
shows a decrease of 13 per 1,000 compared with the average rate
of the previous 10 years.
MORTALITY.
General Mortality and Death-rate.—The number of
deaths which occurred in the District during the past year,
including the deaths of 11 "residents" who died outside the
District (9 in Edmonton Union), and excluding the deaths of
15 "non-residents" who died in the District (10 in the Metropolitan
Asylums Board Hospital at Winchmore Hill), was 172.
The death-rate was therefore 9.0 per 1,000 of the population, an
increase of 5 per 1,000 only on the rate of the preceding year,
which was an exceptional one, and the lowest on record for this
District. The rate for last year is also a very low one, and the
next lowest on record to that of 1903.
The average rate for the 10 years, 1894 to 1903, was 107.
The death-rates of the separate localities were as follows:—
Southgate, 9.4; New Southgate, 127; Winchmore Hill, 8.8;
and Palmers Green and Bowes, 6.6. It will be seen that there
is a remarkable difference in the death-rates of the different
localities: that of New Southgate is considerably greater than
the rest, and is, I think, accounted for by the fact that New
Southgate is on the whole the poorest and most thickly populated
part of the District. This is also borne out by the fact that
there were exactly double the number of deaths from Phthisis
and other tubercular diseases in New Southgate that there
were in the other three localities put together. As a general
rule, the poorer and more thickly populated a district is, the more
prevalent are Phthisis and other tubercular diseases.
As a contrast to this the death-rate of Palmers Green and
Bowes is exceptionally low, and is due, I think, to the fact that