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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
Hornsey 1895
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hornsey, Borough of]
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| Names of Localities adopted for the purpose of these Statistics; public institutions being shown as separate localities. (See note 4 on back of sheet. (Columns for Population and Births are in Table B.) | Mortality from all Causes, at subjoined ages. | Mortality from subjoined Causes, distinguishing Deaths of Children under Five Years of Age. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Smallpox. | Scarlatina. | Diphtheria. | Membranous Croup. | Fevers. | Cholera. | Erysipelas. | Measles. | Whooping Cough. | Diarrhoea and Dysentery. | Rheumatic Fever. | Phthisis. | Bronoliitis, Pneumonia and Pleurisy. | Heart Disease. | Injuries. | All other Diseases. | Total. | ||||||||||||||
| At all ages. | Under 1 year. | 1 and under 5. | 5 and under 15. | 15 and under 25. | 25 and under 65. | 65 and upwards. | Typhus. | Enteric or Typhoid. | Continued. | Relapsing. | Puerperal. | |||||||||||||||||||
| (a) | (b) | (c) | (d) | (e) | (f) | (g) | (h) | (i) | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 |
| HORNSEY URBAN DISTRICT | Under 5 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 505 | 144 | 77 | 20 | 21 | 166 | 137 | Under 5 | - | 2 | 12 | — | — | — | 1 | — | — | — | — | 13 | 10 | 8 | — | — | 32 | 2 | 10 | 131 | 221 | ||
| 5 upwds. | - | 1 | 9 | 4 | 43 | 73 | 62 | 5 | 142 | 344 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Totals | 565 | 144 | 77 | 20 | 21 | 166 | 137 | Under 5 | — | 2 | 12 | — | — | — | 1 | — | — | — | — | 13 | 10 | 8 | — | — | 32 | 2 | 10 | 131 | 221 | |
| 5 upwds. | — | 1 | 9 | — | — | - | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 4 | 43 | 73 | 62 | 5 | 142 | 344 | |||||||||
| The subjoined numbers have also to be taken into account in judging of tde above records of mortality. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Deatds occurring district among belonging tdereto. | 1 | Under 5 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Deatds occurring tde district amoms not belonging tdereto | 3 | Under 5 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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* The heading of column 19 is left blank for the insertion of Influenza, or any other disease which it may be thought desirable to record.
Area and Population of the District or divison to which this Return relates. Area in acres, 2,809½. Population (1891)—44,205.
Death Rates.—General, 10.49 per 1.000 population estimated to middle of 1895. Infant (under one year of age), 133.97 per 1,000 births registered.