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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 1952

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Enfield]

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Table: BIRTHSThe 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:—

BIRTHS

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.
19481,0139431,95617.570.36
19499518111,76215.850.56
19508167821,59814.310.57
19517758131,58814.450.38
19527157471,46213.320.38

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INQUESTS
Fifty-one inquests and one-hundred-and-ten Post-mortem
examinations without inquests were held during the year. Of
these, 115 deaths were due to natural causes, 32 to accidental
causes, 8 to suicide, 4 to misadventure, and in 2 cases an open
verdict was recorded.
FATAL HOME ACCIDENTS.
Last year I wrote at some length on the subject comparing
Enfield figures with the National pattern. This year again in
Enfield the emphasis is on fatal accidents to the aged, the youngest
being 63 years old and the oldest 95 years old. The 11 fatal home
accidents to Enfield residents involved 9 females and 2 males.
The causes of death in five females were falls causing fractured
bones followed by lung complications. The causes in three females
and one male were falls causing fractured bones followed by cardiac
failure, and in the case of one male and one female the cause was
coal gas poisoning.