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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 1960
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Finchley]
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STATISTICS
Area (in acres) 3,478
Population, 1960 (Registrar-General's Estimate) 68,980
Number of Inhabited Houses (at 1st April, 1960) 20,636
Rateable Value (at 1st April, 1960) £1,465,049
Product of a Penny Rate, year 1960/61 £6,000
Total Live Births 1,052
Live Birth Rate per 1,000 home population 15.3
Live Birth Rate per 1,000 population (England & Wales) 17.1
Total Stillbirths 16
Stillbirth Rate per 1,000 (live and still) births 15.0
Stillbirth Rate per 1,000 (live and still) births (England
and Wales) 19.7
Total live and stillbirths 1,068
Infant Deaths 14
Infant Mortality Rate per 1,000 live births—total 13.3
Infant Mortality Rate per 1,000 live births—legitimate 11.0
Infant Mortality Rate per 1,000 live births—illegitimate 55.5
Infant Mortality Rate—(England and Wales) 21.7
Neo-Natal Deaths 11
Neo-Natal Mortality Rate per 1,000 live births 10.5
Neo-Natal Mortality Rate—(England and Wales) 15.6
Illegitimate live births per cent, of total live births 5.13%
Maternal Deaths (including abortion) —
Maternal Mortality Rate per 1,000 live and stillbirths —
Maternal Mortality Rate (England and Wales) 0.39
Total Deaths 738
Crude Death Rate per 1,000 home population 10.7
Standardised Death Rate 9.6
Death Rate per 1,000 population (England and Wales) 11.5
Live Births: Males Females Total
Legitimate 533 465 998
Illegitimate 24 30 54
557 495 1,052
Birth rate 15.3 per 1,000 estimated home population
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