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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

Southgate 1921

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Southgate]

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1 GENERAL STATISTICS.
Area (acrcs) 3,597
Population (1921) 39,120
Number of inhabited houses (1921) 9,642
Average number of persons per house (1921; 4.1
Rateable value £310,160
Sum represented by a penny rate £1,225

Table: II. EXTRACTS FROM VITAL STATISTICS OF THE YEAR

II. EXTRACTS FROM VITAL STATISTICS OF THE YEAR

Total.Male.Female.
BirthsLegitimate5842862981Birth Rate (R.G.), 15 4
Illegitimate19109
Totals603296307Death Rate(R.G.).

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Deaths— 7'8
Number of women dying in, or in consequence of, childbirth—
From Sepsis 3
„ Other causes 2
Deaths of Infants under 1 year of age per 1,000 births —
Legitimate, 19 ; Illegitimate, 3; Total, 22.
Deaths from Measles (all ages) 0
„ ,, Whooping Cough (all ages) 1
,, ,, Diarrhoea (under 2 years
of age) 4