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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 1958
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Finchley]
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STATISTICS
Area (in acres) 3,478
Population, 1958 (Registrar-General's Estimate) 69,080
Number of Inhabited Houses (at 1st April, 1958) 20,295
Rateable Value (at 1st April, 1958) £1,387,989
Product of a Penny Rate, year 1958/59 £5,630
Total Live Births 902
Live Birth Rate per 1,000 home population 13.1
Live Birth Rate per 1,000 population (England & Wales) 16.4
Total Stillbirths 14
Stillbirth Rate per 1,000 (live and still) births 15.3
Stillbirth Rate per 1,000 (live and still) births (England
and Wales) 21.6
Total live and stillbirths 916
Infant Deaths 18
Infant Mortality Rate per 1,000 live births—total 20.0
Infant Mortality Rate per 1,000 live births—legitimate 18.8
Infant Mortality Rate per 1,000 live births—illegitimate 40.0
Infant Mortality Rate—(England and Wales) 22.5
Neo-Natal Deaths 9
Neo-Natal Mortality Rate per 1,000 live births 10.0
Neo-Natal Mortality Rate—(England and Wales) 16.2
Illegitimate live births percent, of total live births 5.54%
Maternal Death (including abortion) 1
Maternal Mortality Rate per 1,000 live and stillbirths 1.09
Maternal Mortality Rate (England and Wales) 0.43
Total Deaths 825
Crude Death Rate per 1,000 home population 11.9
Standardised Death Rate 10.8
Death Rate per 1,000 population (England and Wales) 11.7
Live Births:Males Females Total
Legitimate 438 414 852
Illegitimate 27 23 50
465 437 902
Birth rate 13.1 per 1,000 estimated home population.
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