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figures:-
"among non-smokers only one death in over 300 was due to
lung cancer. In people who smoked 10 cigarettes a day, lung cancer
accounted for one death in every 25. In people who smoked 20
cigarettes a day, one death in 8 was due to lung cancer."
There were no maternal deaths in i960.
(3) Infantile Mortality Rate.
The infantile mortality rate, that is the deaths of infants under
one year per thousand live births, was 13.3 as compared to 20.4 for
1959—a total of 14 as against 19 deaths in 1959. All of these babies
died in the first two weeks of life, the majority in the first week, the
deaths in the main being due to ante-natal causes. The national
average rate was 21.7.
(4) The Birth Kate.
One hundred and twenty more babies were born in Finchley in
1960—a total of 1,052 as against 932 births in 1959, the birth rate
being 15.3 as against 13.5 for 1959. The national birth rate showed
an increase to 17.1 as against 16.5 in 1959.
SANITARY CIRCUMSTANCES:
The very basis of our standard of living, in fact one can say for
us to live lies in the control of our environment, our food, our water,
cur sanitation, our housing, and any one of these factors if neglected
can be killers; but our Public Health Inspectors act as our custodians
and in the course of the year the staff undertook no less than 18,880
visits of inspection and reinspection in their daily work. Until recently
there was one factor in our environment over which we had little
control and that was the very air we breathe. How important this
has become when one considers the modern weapons of war and the
danger of our atmosphere becoming polluted as a result of nuclear
tall-out. Unfortunately the control of this form of pollution lies not
in our hands. However, at the moment radioactivity is not an immediate
problem, but the smoke, grit and sulphur with which we smog
ourselves daily too can become a killer, as witness the smog which
killed 4,000 Londoners as recently as 1952. The advent of the Clean
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