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Enfield 1954

[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.
19508167821,59814.310.57
19517758131,58814.450.38
19527157471,46213.320.38
19536986761,37412.570.45
19547097061,41512.950.52

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INQUESTS
Forty-eight Inquests and two-hundred-and-twenty-four Postmortem
examinations without inquests were held during the year.
Of these, 227 deaths were due to natural causes, 26 to accidental
causes, 14 to suicide, 2 to misadventure, and in 3 cases an open
verdict was recorded.
FATAL HOME ACCIDENTS.
Two years ago I wrote at some length on this subject, comparing
Enfield figures with the National pattern. This year again
in Enfield the emphasis is on fatal accidents to the aged, all being
between the ages of 62 and 92 years, except 3 persons aged 17,45
and 55 years. The 14 fatal home accidents to Enfield residents
involved 9 females and 5 males.
The causes of death in six females and three males were falls
causing fractured bones followed by lung complications. The
cause in the case of one female and one male was coal gas poisoning,
in one female the cause was shock due to burns sustained when
clothing caught fire, in another to toxaemia due to burns sustained
when trying to extinguish flames of a burning mattress, and the
cause of one other male was suppurative bronchitis following
barbiturate poisoning.