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Finchley 1907

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Finchley]

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When calculating the nett death-rate of the District, it
has been the custom to exclude deaths occurring in the
Convent of the Good Shepherd, East Finchley, and the two
associated homes, namely, the Home of the Good Shepherd
and St. Joseph's Home, and I have hitherto also excluded the
deaths of infants under a year old which have occurred in
the Home for Homeless Children, Fallow Corner; but on
looking very carefully into the matter I have come to the
conclusion that all the residents in the above-named institutions
must be regarded as parishioners, and in the returns for
1907 I have included all deaths occurring amongst them.
On comparing Table A with the corresponding table of
the preceding year one notes a very marked diminution in
the number of deaths of infants from diarrhoea. This was
undoubtedly due in the main to the wet summer and autumn,
and generally low temperature of these seasons, both of which
factors were inimical to the multiplication of disease producing
organisms in milk and other food stuffs. The high
rates of mortality from Measles and Whooping Cough will
be dealt with later in this report.
There was very little difference between the general
mortality rate of North Finchley and that of East Finchley,
the former rate being 10.4 and the latter 10.2 per 1,000 of
estimated population. Whetstone followed with a deathrate
of 9.6, and West Finchley with a death-rate of 8.8.

Recorded Death-Rate of Each Sub-District.

No. of Deaths.Rate per 1000 of estimated population.
East Finchley14810.2
North Finchley8910.4
West Finchley978.8
Whetstone239.6
District as a whole3579.83