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Friern Barnet 1937
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Friern Barnet]
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TABLE 5.
BIRTH-RATES, DEATH-RATES, AND ANALYSIS OF MORTALITY DURING THE YEAR 1937.
THE FOLLOWING TABLE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY TEE REGISTRAR GENERAL, AND IS USEFUL FOR COMPARATIVE PURPOSES.
| Rate per 1000 total pop. | Annual Death-rate per 1000 population | Rate per 1000 live births | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Live-births | Still-births | All causes | Enteric Fever | Small-pox | Measles | Scarlet Fever | Whooping Cough | Diphtheria | Influenza | Violence | Diarrhoea and Enteritis (under 2 years) | Total Deaths under one year | |
| England & Wales | 14.9 | 0.60 | 12.4 | 0.00 | - | 0.02 | 0.01 | 0.04 | 0.07 | 0.45 | 0.54 | 5.8 | 58 |
| 125 County Boroughs & Great Towns, inc.London | 14.9 | 0.67 | 12.5 | 0.01 | - | 0.03 | 0.01 | 0.04 | 0.08 | 0.39 | 0.45 | 7.9 | 62 |
| 148 Smaller Towns (est. Resident pop. 25,000 to 50,000 Census 1931). | 15.3 | 0.64 | 11.9 | 0.00 | — | 0.02 | 0.01 | 0.03 | 0.05 | 0.42 | 0.42 | 3.2 | 55 |
| London | 13.3 | 0.54 | 12.3 | 0.00 | - | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.06 | 0.05 | 0.38 | 0 .51 | 12.0 | 60 |
| I therefore recapitulate the figures for Friern Barnet already given in various paragraphs of the report. | |||||||||||||
| Friern Barnet | 12.4 | 0.60 | 10.2 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.26 | 0 .53 | 0.0 | 27 |