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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 1939
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Southgate]
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STATISTICS OF THE AREA.
Area (in acres) 3,764
Registrar-General's estimate of Resident
Population, 1939:
(a) For calculation of Birth-rate 69,400
(b) For calculation of Death-rate, etc. 67,770
Number of inhabited houses (end of 1939)
according to Rate books 20,300
Rateable Value (1939) £903,981
Sum represented by a penny rate (1939) £3,642
EXTRACTS FROM VITAL STATISTICS OP THE YEAR.
| Total | Male | Female | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Live | Legitimate | 761 | 393 | 368 |
| Births | Illegitimate | 19 | 6 | 13 |
| Totals | 780 | 399 | 381 | |
Birth rate per 1,000 of the estimated
population 11.24
Total live births for
calculation of Infant
Mortality rate, etc. 771 395 376
Stillbirths 30 16 14
Rate per 1,000 total (live and still)
births 37.45
Deaths 693 336 357
Corrected Death rate per 1,000 of the
estimated resident population 10.16
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