Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Enfield]
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SUMMARY OF STATISTICS RELATING TO THE
LONDON BOROUGH OF ENFIELD
Area (acres) 20,061
Population (Registrar General's Mid-1965 Estimate) 268,870
Number of structurally separate dwellings, including flats 86,884
Number of dwellings constructed during the year 834
Rateable Value £17,564,170
Product of a 1d Rate £71,800
LIVE BIRTHS
Number 4,248
Rate per 1,000 population (crude) 15.80
Rate per 1,000 population (standardised) 16 43
(E & W) 18.0
Illegitimate live births per cent of total live births 6.12
STILLBIRTHS
Number 49
Rate per 1,000 total live births and stillbirths 11.4
(E & W) 15.7
Total live and stillbirths 4,297
Infant deaths (deaths under the age of 1 year) 77
INFANT MORTALITY RATES
Total infant deaths per 1,000 total live births 18.12
(E & W) 19.0
Legitimate infant deaths per 1,000 legitimate live births 18.05
Illegitimate infant deaths per 1,000 illegitimate live births 19.23
Neo-natal mortality rate (deaths under age of 4 weeks per 1,000
total live births) 12.71
(E&W) 13.0
Early neo-natal mortality rate (deaths under the age of 1 week per
1,000 total live births) 11.53
Peri-natal mortality rate (stillbirths and deaths under the age of 1
week combined per 1,000 total live and stillbirths) 22.80
MATERNAL MORTALITY (including abortion)
Number of deaths Nil
Rate per 1,000 total live and still births —
(E & W) 0.25
DEATHS 3,098
Death rate per 1,000 home population (crude) 11.52
Death rate per 1,000 home population (standardised) 10.94
(E&W) 11.5
Deaths from cancer (all forms) 698
Death rate from cancer (all forms) per 1,000 population 2.596
(E&W) 2.227
Note: (E & W) = England and Wales.
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