Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Friern Barnet]
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matter at this juncture. Although actual deaths
from lung cancer have very substantially and tragically
increased in this country since 1940, the local
picture is fortunately not so striking, as the following
tables will show:
Deaths from Cqncer of the Lung and Bronchus.
Male | Female | |
---|---|---|
1952 | 20 | 20 |
1953 | 22 | 21 |
1954 | 40 | 22 |
1955 | 27 | 39 |
1956 | 29 | 28 |
1957 | 30 | 35 |
1958 | 28 | 27 |
1959 | 32 | 29 |
I960 | 46 | 25 |
1961 | 34 | 35 |
Deaths from Bronchitis.
1952 | 7 | 5 |
1953 | 2 | 3 |
1954 | 22 | 6 |
1955 | 34 | 19 |
1956 | 20 | 23 |
1957 | 22 | 10 |
195S | 9 | 10 |
1959 | 11 | 20 |
I960 | 12 | 7 |
1961 | 15 | 12 |
From this table it will be seen that
deaths from cancer and bronchitis have not increased
in Friern Barnet within the past ten years to the
same extent as has been evident in the country as a
whole, although the increase is there to be seen,
more evident- and this is unusual- in females.
The comparatively small numbers involved should in
no way prevent us from continuing our efforts to
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