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Enfield 1929
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Enfield]
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DEATHS.
To these must be added 266 deaths of Enfield residents registered outside the District, and from this total must be subtracted 63 deaths of non-residents occurring in the District, which brings the number of deaths to 688 for the year, giving a net death-rate of 10.56 per 1,000 population.
| Birth-rate. | Recorded Death-rate. | Infantile Death-rate. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Live Births. | Still Births. | |||
The corresponding figures for Enfield for the five previous
years are:—
1924. 1925. 1926. 1927. 1928.
Net death-rate 9.39 9.91 10.05 11.08 9.92
Seventy-six deaths registered in the District were persons over
80 years of age, 23 being males and 53 females, one woman dying
at the age of 96.
The more important causes of deaths registered were:—
Malignant Disease, 84; Bronchitis, 46; Heart Disease, 105; Old
Age, 49; Tuberculosis of Respiratory System, 47; Pneumonia, 96;
Arterio-Sclerosis, 19; Nephritis, 21; Cerebral Haemorrhage, 44;
Deaths from Violence (excluding Suicides), 24; whilst among the
children, Premature Births accounted for 5; Inanition and
Marasmus, 5; Congenital Malformations, 9; and Pneumonia, 14.