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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 1952
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Finchley]
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| Area (in acres) | 3,478 | |||||
| Population, 1952 (Registrar-General's Estimate) | 70,290 | |||||
| Number of Inhabited Houses (1952; | 19,812 | |||||
| Rateable Value (1952) | £930,016 | |||||
| Sum represented by a Penny Rate | £3,822 | |||||
| Total Live Births | 953 | |||||
| Birth Rate per 1,000 home population | 13.6 | |||||
| Birth Rate per 1,000 population (England and Wales) | 15.3 | |||||
| Total Stillbirths | 23 | |||||
| Stillbirth Rate per 1,000 (live and still) births | 23.6 | |||||
| Total Deaths | 782 | |||||
| Crude Death Rate per 1,000 home population | 11.1 | |||||
| Standardised Death Rate | 10.2 | |||||
| Death Rate per 1,000 population (England and Wales) | 11.3 | |||||
| Infant Deaths | 11 | |||||
| Infant Mortality Rate | 11.5 | |||||
| Infant Mortality Rate (England and Wales) | 27.6 | |||||
| Maternal Deaths | - | |||||
| Maternal Mortality Rate | — | |||||
| Maternal Mortality Rate (England and Wales) | 0.72 | |||||
| Legitimate | 476 | 435 | 911 | |||
| Illegitimate | 24 | 18 | 42 | |||
| 500 | 453 | 953 | ||||
| Birth rate 13.6 per 1,000 estimated home population. | ||||||
| 13 | 10 | 23 | ||||
| Rate 23.6 per 1,000 (live and still) births | ||||||