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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

Enfield 1947

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Enfield]

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BIRTHS
The actual number of births registered in the District was as
follows:—
Males Females Total
759 760 1,519
including 14 male and 22 female illegitimate births. In addition
14 male and 11 female still births were registered.

Table: The corrected birth rates for both sexes, live and still births, which takes into consideration those born outside the District and those in the District not rightly recorded to the District, and also the corrected birth rates for the last five years are:—

The corrected birth rates for both sexes, live and still births, which takes into consideration those born outside the District and those in the District not rightly recorded to the District, and also the corrected birth rates for the last five years are:—

Year.Boys.Girls.Total.Birth-rate per 1.000 Population.Illegitimate Birth-rate per 1,000 Population.
19431,0179481.96520.630.83
19441.0469401,98621.410.75
19459238431,76618.651.15
19461,1201,1102,23021.390.91
19471,2131,1422,35521.820.69

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INQUESTS
Sixty-two inquests and eighty-six P.M.s without inquests were
held on Enfield residents during the year. Out of these, 91 deaths
were due to natural causes, 35 to accidental causes, 16 to suicide,
4 to misadventure, and in 2 cases an open verdict was recorded.
AMBULANCE FACILITIES
General
During the year the Civil Ambulance Service was maintained
by the Health Department; 3,841 patients were conveyed to Hospitals,
the total mileage undertaken by the Ambulances being
35,653 miles.
The Service has four Ambulances, two of which are maintained
fully manned with interchangeable driver and attendant during the
24-hour period, it being possible in emergency to man the other
Ambulances by withdrawing attendants to act as drivers.
Annual Report
Prior to the War, The Enfield Ambulance Service was under
the control of the Fire Brigade.
Immediately on the outbreak of War the Ambulances were
handed over to the health department to be run in conjunction
with the Civil Defence Casualty Service then being set up. Throughout
the War years the Ambulance Service continued to be staffed
and run on this basis, until cessation of hostilities in 1945 when, on