View report page

11
Fifty-five of the deaths registered were those of persons over
80 years of age, 24 being males and 31 females.
Three of the women were over 90, the oldest being 92, their
combined ages amounting to 273 years, and one of the men lived
to see 93.
The more important causes of death as registered were:—
Heart Disease, 68; Pulmonary Tuberculosis, 51; Bronchitis, 50;
Pneumonia, 42; Malignant Disease, 40; Old Age, 38; Bright's
Disease, 14; Diphtheria, 6; and Scarlet Fever, 1; whilst among
the children Premature Birth accounted for 53 deaths; Respiratory
Diseases, 23 ; and Diarrhoea, 21.
INQUESTS.
Thirty-six inquests were held during the year, of which 8 were
of non-residents. Twenty-three deaths were found to be due to
natural causes, and 13 to accidents as follows:—5, drowning
(3 non-residents); 1, burns; 1, scalding; 1, fall from horse
(non-resident); 1, fall at pumping station (non-resident); 1, killed
on railway (non-resident); 1, struck by baulk of timber (nonresident);
1 choked by grain of maize in glottis; and 1 infant
suffocated.
Fourteen inquests were held on Enfield residents who died
in other districts, and death was due to:—1 natural causes; 11 to
accident (2 scalds, 2 knocked down by motor-car, 1 knocked down
by railway train, 1 fall from cycle, 1 fall from tree, 1 clay falling,
1 drowned at sea, 1 burns, 1 intracranial pressure); 2 suicide (by
prussic acid, and by railway train).
INFANTILE DEATHS.
The total number of deaths that occurred among infants under
one year was 116, giving a death-rate of 8715 per 1,000 births,
as compared with a death-rate of 109 for England and Wales, and
116 for the 96 great towns, including London. The corresponding
figures for Enfield for the last three years were:—1910, 8315; 1911,
140.79; and 1912, 76 30.
The number of deaths of illegitimate children was 11, which
gives a death-rate of 353.23 per thousand illegitimate infants.
This forms a striking contrast to the legitimate death-rate,
and shews what a very small fighting chance these unfortunate and
unwanted children get in their struggle for life.
The following table assigns the number of infantile deaths
to each ward, and also gives the Infantile death-rate per thousand
population and per thousand births:—