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MORTALITY.
General Mortaljty and Death Rate.
The nett number of deaths accredited to the district was
445, 21 less than in 1961. This gives a crude death rate of
15.7 per 1,000 of the total population and 11.3 for the district
excluding Friern Hospital, with a corrected death rate of 11.0
(the rate for 1961 being 11.3)•
There was a rise of 43 in the deaths from diseases of the
heart and circulatory system. There was a small but welcome drop
in the deaths due to cancer of the lung from 28 to 20, but deaths
from bronchitis rose from 27 to 33.
The heavy toll of life from these two group causes could
be considerably reduced, but its reduction involves the most difficult
of all remedies - the changing of habits that are set and built in
to the way of life.
Contributory factors in Coronary Diseases are undoubtedly
the stress and rush of present day living. A three-mile walk daily
would be an excellent prescription coupled with sensible and moderate
eating to prevent increase of weight. It is surely an obvious
assumption that the heart can do its job more efficiently without
an added load of a stone or more imposed upon it just when it is
beginning to age.
The following table shows the deaths from cancer of the
lung and bronchus and deaths from bronchitis for Friern Barnet over
the past 10 years.

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