London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972

View report page

Friern Barnet 1961

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Friern Barnet]

This page requires JavaScript

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.

MaleFemale
19522020
19532221
19544022
19552739
19562928
19573035
19582827
19593229
I9604625
19613435

Deaths from Bronchitis.

195275
195323
1954226
19553419
19562023
19572210
195S910
19591120
I960127
19611512

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
-6-