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Barnet 1940

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Barnet Rural District]

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SECTION A

STATISTICS AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS OF THE AREA

Area8339 acres
Population, 1921 Census4513
Population, 1931 Census6,400
Registrar-General's estimate of
(a) resident population mid-194010,800
(b) average population appropriate to the calculation of death rates10,800
Number of inhabited houses , (end of 1940) accordiner to Rate BooksElstree 1,9362,559
Shenley 548
Ridge 75
Rateable Value (1st April, 1941)£114,810
Estimated product of a penny rate (1st April, 1941)£380

SOCIAL CONDITIONS
Vide Annual Report for 1939.

VITAL STATISTICS

TotalM.F.
Live BirthsLegitimate1356966
Illegitimate936
Birth Rate : 13.3 per 1,000 estimated resident population mid-1940.
Stillbirths11
Rate : 6.9 per 1,000 total (live and still) births.
Deaths703931
Death Rate : 6.48 per 1,000 estimated average population.

The Comparability Factor of 1.11 (furnished by the RegistrarGeneral
to correct anomalies in age and sex distribution, compared
with the country as a whole) gives a Standardised Death
Rate of 7.19.
The Death Rates tor England and Wales and tor
the Administrative County of London respectively are given
as 14.3 and 17.8 per 1,000 population.