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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 1949
[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 1949 FOR THE WHOLE DISTRICT.
| Cause of Death. | No. Reg. | In Trans. | 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. | 3 | 4 | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | 3 | 2 | 3 | - | 1 | - | 3 | 4 | 3 | 7 |
| Arterio-sclerosis. | 4 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4 | 2 | 2 | - | - | - | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| Bronchitis. | 2 | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | 1 | 1 | - | - | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | |
| Cancer. | 28 | 16 | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | 16 | 26 | 11 | 5 | 13 | 1 | 14 | 21 | 23 | 44 |
| Cerebral-haemorrhage | 18 | 8 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 7 | 18 | 8 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 9 | 7 | 19 | 26 |
| Congenital debility. | 1 | 4 | 5 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | 2 | - | - | 3 | 2 | 5 |
| Epilepsy. | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | 1 |
| Heart Disease. | 70 | 31 | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | 16 | 83 | 31 | 13 | 27 | 4 | 26 | 49 | 52 | 101 |
| Nephritis. | 4 | 5 | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 9 |
| Other circulatory diseases. | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | 2 | 2 |
| Other defined dis. | - | 5 | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | - | - | 3 | 2 | 5 |
| Other digestive dis. | 1 | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | - | - | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| Pneumonia. | 13 | 19 | 3 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 7 | 21 | 11 | 7 | 8 | 1 | 5 | 12 | 20 | 32 |
| Syphillis. | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | 1 |
| Senility. | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | 1 | - | - | - | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| Suicide. | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | 2 | - | 1 | - | 2 | 2 |
| Tuberculosis(Pulm) | 5 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 3 | - | 3 | - | 1 | 4 | 1 | - | - | 4 | 2 | 6 |
| Whooping Cough. | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | 1 |
| TOTAL. | 156 | 100 | 10 | 1 | 2 | - | 5 | 7 | 57 | 174 | 75 | 44 | 64 | 8 | 65 | 117 | 139 | 256 |