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Hendon 1955
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hendon]
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ROAD TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS.
The following tables show the road traffic accidents and casualties occurring
within the Borough of Hendon during the year 1955 and the comparative figures and
casualties for the five year period 1951 - 1955.
It should be noted that the figures shown refer not only to Hendon residents
but also to persons living in other areas who were involved in accidents within the
Borough.
The figures for fatalities shown in these tables may not agree, therefore, with
those in the list of causes of death supplied by the Registrar General. The RegistrarGeneral's
figures refer to Hendon residents only, and the death may have occurred
within the Borough of Hendon or outside the district.
TABLE VI
ROAD TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS 1955 WITHIN THE BOROUGH OF HENDON.
| Adults. | Children. | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Month | Not of Accidents | Killed | Seriously Injured | SIightly Injured | Killed | Seriously Injured | Slightly Injured | TOTAL |
| J anuary | 51 | - | 24 | 35 | - | 1 | 3 | 63 |
| February | 57 | - | 18 | 46 | - | - | 6 | 70 |
| March | 71 | 3 | 14 | 62 | - | - | 8 | 87 |
| April | 77 | 1 | 23 | 56 | - | 4 | 11 | 95 |
| May | 84 | 1 | 13 | 77 | - | - | 15 | 106 |
| June | 77 | - | 16 | 71 | - | 2 | 11 | 100 |
| July | 82 | 2 | 10 | 73 | - | 3 | 10 | 98 |
| August | 68 | - | 13 | 52 | - | 1 | 12 | 78 |
| September | 75 | 1 | 13 | 80 | - | 1 | 5 | 100 |
| October | 83 | 2 | 12 | 93 | - | 12 | 120 | |
| Novembe r | 100 | 3 | 22 | 87 | 1 | 3 | 13 | 129 |
| December | 105 | 4 | 18 | 98 | 11 | 131 | ||
| TOTAL | 930 | 17 | 196 | 830 | 1 | 16 | 117 | 1,177 |