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Maternal Mortality
One mother died in 1949 giving a maternal mortality rate of
1 per 1,000 births. The rate for England and Wales was 0.98.
Deaths
There were 834 deaths in 1949, 71 more than in 1948 when the
number was particularly low, namely 763, which was 67 less than
in 1947. There were 30 more deaths from cancer and 23 more
from diseases of the heart and blood vessels than in 1948.
There were 59 more deaths of persons over 65 years of age
than in 1948.
The crude death rate was 11.8 and the standardised death
rate was 10.97. The rate for England and Wales was 11.7. Each
district is allotted a comparability figure by the Registrar General
which varies according to the age and sex constitution of the
population as compared with those of England and Wales as a
whole.
The average age of the population of Finchley is considerably
higher than that of the Country as a whole and as there are
inevitably more deaths per 1,000 in an older population than in a
younger one Finchley is allotted a comparability figure of 0.93 by
which the crude death rate is multiplied in order to obtain the
standardised death rate. The difference in the sex constitution of
the population of Finchley from that of England and Wales is
too slight to have any appreciable effect on the death rate.
Mortuary
Ninety-nine bodies were received into the Mortuary, and 29
of these were from Friern Barnet.
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