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INQUESTS: Inquests were held on 29 residents during the year, the findings
being as follows:-
Bronchitis 1
Pneumonia 3
Chronic alcoholism 1
Suicide 2
Accidents 13
Status Epilepticus 1
Cancer 1
Heart Failure 2
Asphyxia 1
Brain Contusion 1
Peritonitis 1
Haemorrhage 1
Cerebral Compression 1
MATSRNAL MORTALITY:
There was one maternal death during the year giving a maternal
mortality rate of 2.08 per 1,000 Total (Live and Still) Births.
INFANTILE MORTALITY:
There were 26 deaths amongst infants under one year of age and
the infant mortality rate based on 1,000 live births was 56. The
following are comparative infant mortality rates.

DEATHS IN RELATION TO DISEASE:
For the first time since 1939 the infant mortality figure for
Finsbury was batter than that for the whole of London. This was due in the main
to the reduction in the infant deaths caused by pneumonia. Diarrhoea continued to
be an important factor in infant mortality. The sharp influenza epidemic at the
end of the year which had a high morbidity rate did not form a great danger to life
and there was no increase in the number of deaths from influenza in the borough
during the year. The measles epidemic although extensive caused no deaths.