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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
Friern Barnet 1948
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Friern Barnet]
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TABLE 2.
ANALYSIS OF THE CAUSES OF AND AGES AT DEATH DURING THE YEAR 1948 FOR THE WHOLE DISTRICT.
| Cause of Death. | No. Reg. | In Trans | At Ages | Wards. | M. | F. | Nett Deaths. | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0-1 | 1-2 | 2-5 | 5-15 | 15-25 _ | 25-45 | 45-65 | 65 & 0. | N. | S. | C. | E. | W. | ||||||
| Accident | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Arterio -sclerosis. | 5 | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | - | 1 | 3 | 5 | 8 |
| Cancer. | 30 | 16 | - | - | - | - | - | 5 | 17 | 24 | 15 | 9 | 9 | 6 | 7 | 23 | 23 | 46 |
| Cerebral-Haemorrhage | 22 | 5 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 5 | 22 | 15 | 4 | 3 | - | 5 | 10 | 17 | 27 |
| Congenital-debility | - | 3 | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| Diabetes. | - | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | - | 2 | 2 |
| Diphtheria. | - | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | 1 |
| Gangrene. | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | 1 |
| Heart Disease. | 63 | 22 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 2 | 18 | 64 | 23 | 12 | 23 | 8 | 19 | 43 | 42 | 85 |
| Meningitis. | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | 1 |
| Misadventure. | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | 2 | - | - | 2 | - | 2 |
| Nephritis. | 3 | 5 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 8 |
| Other circulatory diseases. | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | 2 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Other defined dis. | 3 | 6 | 2 | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 9 |
| Other digestive dis. | - | 5 | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | - | 2 | 2 | - | 2 | - | 1 | 4 | 1 | 5 |
| Other Respiratory diseases. | 1 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 2 | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | 1 | 3 | - | 3 |
| Pneumonia. | 8 | 6 | - | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | 3 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 10 | 14 |
| Suicide. | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | 1 |
| Senility. | - | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | 2 | - | 2 |
| Tuberculosis.(Pulm) | 9 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 2 | 10 |
| TOTALS. | 148 | 84 | 7 | 2 | - | 1 | 1 | 18 | 57 | 146 | 75 | 34 | 58 | 21 | 44 | 116 | 116 | 232 |