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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Barnet 1937
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Barnet Rural District]
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Social Conditions.
The District comprises the several parishes of
Elstree, Shenley, and Ridge. The chief occupations
are, in Shenley and Ridge, farming
and residential. In Elstree they are industrial,
more particularly film, photographic plates and
papers, knitting mills, and, to some extent, residential.
Considerable industrial development is
taking place.
Unemployment of a nature peculiar to the film
industry has been prevalent during 1937.
Extracts from Vital Statistics of the Year.
| Total. | M. | F. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Live Births | Legitimate | 121 | 69 | 52 |
| Illegitimate | 4 | 1 | 3 | |
| Birth-rate, 14.5 per 1,000 of the estimated population. | ||||
| Still Births | 3 | 3 | 0 | |
| Bate per 1,000 total births | 24. | |||
| Deaths | 63 | 33 | 30 | |
Death-rate, 7.2 per 1,000.
Number of women dying in, or in consequence
of, child birth:—
Rate per 1,000 births.
From Sepsis 1 8
From Other Causes 1 8
Total 2 16
Death-rate of infants under one year of age
per 1,000 live births (Total, 32):—
Legitimate, 32. Illegitimate, 0
Deaths from Cancer 8
Deaths from Measles (all ages) 0
Deaths from Whooping Cough (all
ages) 0
Diarrhoea (under 2 years of age) 0