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The deaths under one year to births registered works out at
103-21 for 1,000 inhabitants, and compare with London with 158 per
1,000 for the same period and with 102.7 for 1896 for Hornsey, and
the deaths under five years to 146.67 against 146 for 1896 and the
percentage of deaths under one year is 26.1 compared with 25.4 for 1896.
The mortality under one year per 1,000 inhabitants amounts to
2.12 and under five years to 3.01 and the mortality for 65 years and
over amounts to 2.22 per 1,000 inhabitants.
The following table (for part of which I am indebted to "The
Lancet" of February 5th, 1898) shows the cases notified and the deaths
occurring from infectious disease in London, Hampstead, St. Pancras,
Islington, Finchley and Hornsey. London is made up of 43 sanitary
areas, but I would specially draw attention to that of Hampstead
as being in many respects similar to Hornsey and the comparison
between the vital statistics of two of these northern surburbs of
London must be interesting and instructive. It is needless to go
further into details as a glance at the table shows at once the general
sanitary condition of the Districts as compared with each other.
St. Pancras, Islington and Finchley are selected because they to a
great extent surround the Hornsey District, and, therefore, the
comparison of their death rate, &c. with our own should be a source of
information as to the general sanitary condition existing in them all.
I have also appended the death rates from 33 of the largest English
Towns and also their annual death rate from zymotic diseases.