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Friern Barnet 1939
[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 1939. THE FOLLOWING TABLE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY THE REGISTRAR GENERAL, AND IS USEFUL FOR COMPARATIVE PURPOSES
| Rate per 1000 potal pop. | Annual death-rate per 1000 population | Rate per 1000 live births | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Live-births | Stillebirths | All causes | Enteric Fever | Small-pox | Measles | Scarlet Fever | Whooping Cough | Diphtheria | Influenza | Diarrhoea and enteritis (under 2 years) | Total deaths under one year | |
| England & Wales | 15.0 | 0.59 | 12.1 | 0.00 | - | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.03 | 0.05 | 0.21 | 4.6 | 50 |
| 126 County roughs & Great Towns, inc. London | 14.8 | 0.59 | 12.0 | 0.00 | - | 0.01 | 0.00 | 0.03 | 0.05 | 0.19 | 6.3 | 53 |
| 148 Smaller Towns (est resident pop.25,000 to 50,000 Census 1931) | 15.6 | 0.57 | 11.2 | 0.00 | - | 0.01 | 0.00 | 0.02 | 0.04 | 0.20 | 3.0 | .40 |
| London | 12.3 | 0.44 | 11.9 | 0.00 | - | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.03 | 0.02 | 0.08 | 8.2 | 48 |
| I therefore recapticulate the figures for Friern Barnet already given in various paragraphs of report. | ||||||||||||
| Friern Barnet | 14.0 | 0.40 | 9.2 | 0.04 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.12 | 2.9 | 40 |