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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
Friern Barnet 1946
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Friern Barnet]
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TABLE 2.
ANALYSIS OF THE CAUSES OF AND AGES AT DEATH DURING THE YEAR 1946. FOR THE WHOLE DISTRICT
| Causes of Death. | No. Regd. | In Tran. | At Ages. | Wards. | M. | F. | Nett Deaths. | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0-1 | 1-2 | 2-5 | 5-15 | 15-25 | 25-45 | 45-65 | 65&0 | N. | S. | C. | E. | W. | • | |||||
| Accident. | 2 | 3 | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | 4 | 2 | 1 | 2 | - | - | 1 | 4 | 5 |
| Arterio-sclerosis. | 5 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 7 | 2 | - | 3 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 7 |
| Bronchitis | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | _- | 1 | 1 |
| Cancer. | 24 | 23 | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | 14 | 30 | 27 | 6 | 7 | - | 7 | 24 | 23 | 47 |
| Cerebral-haemorrhage. | 17 | 10 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 5 | 22 | 5 | 5 | 12 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 18 | 27 |
| Cerebro-spinal-fever. | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | |
| Congenital debility. | 4 | 14 | 18 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 8 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 8 | 18 |
| Coronary thrombosis. | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | 2 | - | 2 |
| Diabetes. | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | _ | 1 | 2 | — | - | - | -_ | — | 2 | 2 |
| Hear Disease. | 48 | 26 | - | - | - | - | - | 4 | 16 | 54 | 19 | 20 | 27 | 1 | 7 | 30 | 44 | 74 |
| Influenza. | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | _ | - | - | 1 | 1 |
| Nephritis. | 2 | 5 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 4 | - | - | 4 | 3 | 7 |
| Other circulatory diseases. | 3 | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 6 |
| Other def. diseases. | 3 | 14 | 1 | - | - | 2 | - | 2 | 4 | 8 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 10 | 17 |
| Other digestive diseases. | — | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | - | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| Other poerperal causes. | - | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | 2 | 2 |
| Pneumonia. | 4 | 14 | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | 3 | 12 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 13 | 18 |
| Senility. | 8 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 10 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | - | 3 | 7 | 10 |
| Tuberculosis of Resp. system | 6 | 7 | - | - | - | _ | 2 | 8 | 3 | - | 3 | 5 | 5 | - | - | 12 | 1 | 13 |
| Totals. | 130 | 131 | 20 | - | - | 3 | 4 | 22 | 52 | 160 | 89 | 58 | 76 | 11 | 27 | 115 | 146 | 261. |