London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
View report page
Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Finchley 1956
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Finchley]
This page requires JavaScript
STATISTICS
Area (in acres) 3,478
Population, 1956 (Registrar-General's Estimate) 69,800
Number of Inhabited Houses (at 1st April, 1956) 20,100
Rateable Value (at 1st April, 1956) £1,422,233
Product of a Penny Rate, year 1956/57 £5,820
Total Live Births 910
Birth Rate per 1,000 home population 13.0
Birth Rate per 1,000 population (England and Wales) 15.7
Total Stillbirths 13
Stillbirth Rate per 1,000 (live and still) births 14.1
Stillbirth Rate per 1,000 (live and still) births (England
and Wales) 23.0
Total Deaths 831
Crude Death Rate per 1,000 home population 11.9
Standardised Death Rate 10.9
Death Rate per 1,000 population (England and Wales) 11.7
Infant Deaths 12
Infant Mortality Rate 13.2
Infant Mortality Rate (England and Wales) 23.8
Neo-Natal Deaths 8
Neo-Natal Mortality Rate 8.8
Neo-Natal Mortality Rate (England and Wales) 16.9
Maternal Deaths 1
Maternal Mortality Rate 1.08
Maternal Mortality Rate (England and Wales) 0.56
Live Births 2
Males Females Total
Legitimate 447 435 882
Illegitimate 13 15 28
460 450 910
Birth rate 13.0 per 1,000 estimated home population.
Males Females Total
Stillbirths 6 7 13
Rate 14.1 per 1,000 (live and still) births.
8