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Barking 1945
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Barking]
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SECTION A.
STATISTICS AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS
OF THE AREA.
1. Births.
The number of live births during the year 1945
shows a decrease over the previous year. There were
1,144 live births compared with 1,270 in 1944. There
were 33 still births—the figure for the previous year
being 31.
Towards the end of the year, the number of confinements
per month showed an increase over the
earlier months and the amount of ante-natal work
with which your officers were faced foreshadowed a
considerable increase in this work for the year 1946.
2. Deaths.
(a) General.
During the year 328 deaths were registered in
Barking and of these 12 were in respect of nonresidents.
Taking into account residents who died
elsewhere and excluding the deaths of visitors we get
a nett figure of:—
Males. Females. Total.
314 297 611