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50% of the total deaths recorded during 1958. This
merely repeats the findings of the past few years.
The continuous appearance in our mortality statistics
of deaths from coronary diseases, together with other
diseases of the heart and circulation, especially
among males during what should be the prime of life,
is most disturbing. Various reasons have been advanced
to explain these catastrophies, although no single
explanation would seem to meet the case. The increasing
stress and strain of modern life and errors in
diet have both been accused, although there may well
be some other factor or factors which have not yet come
to light. Whatever the cause, this is obviously a
matter which calls for the most profound study. For
the same reason, the alarming increase in deaths from
cancer of the lung provides another avenue which should
be explored, must be explored as a matter of urgency.
Although one cannot say that there are any specific
factors peculiar to Friern Barnet which encourage
coronary disease or lung cancer, it is quite evident
that health education should play its part in providing
the necessary advice and guidance, at least along
general lines.
The Deaths and Death-Rates for the past five
years have been: