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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
Finchley 1933
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Finchley]
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SOCIAL CONDITIONS.
Area 3,384
Population, 1933 (Registrar-General's Estimate) 61,140
Number of Inhabited Houses (end of 1933) 15,177
Rateable Value (1933) £702,354
Sum represented by a Penny Rate £2,833
EXTRACTS FROM VITAL STATISTICS FOR
THE YEAR.
Live Births:
Total. Males. Females
Legitimate 648 328 320
Illegitimate 23 10 13
Birth-rate, 10.97 Per 1,000 estimated resident population.
Total. Males. FemalesStillbirths
18 10 8
Rate, 26.1 per 1,000 total (live and still) births.
'Total. Males. FemalesDeaths
592 281 311
Death-rate, 9.7 per 1,000 estimated resident population.
Deaths from diseases and accidents of pregnancy and
child birth:—
From sepsis —
From other causes 4
Death-rate of Infants under one year of age:—
*A11 infants per 1,000 live births—
Excluding Institution children 26.8
Including Institution children 40.2
Legitimate infants per 1,000 legitimate live
births 27.8
Illegitimate infants per 1,000 illegitimate live
births 391.3
Deaths from Measles (all ages)—
Deaths from Whooping-cough (all ages) 3
Deaths from Diarrhoea (under 2 years of age) 6
*See explanation under Infantile Mortality on Page 5.
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