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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 1949
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Southgate]
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Statistics and Social Conditions
of the Area
Area (in acres) 3,764
Registrar General's estimate of Resident Civilian
Population, 1949 74,350
Number of Inhabited Houses (end of 1949) according
to Rate Books 21,872
Rateable Value (1949) £930,372
Sum represented by a penny rate (1949) £3,770
The social conditions of the Area have shown no material
alteration during the year. The comments which I made in this
connection in the Annual Reports for 1948 and 1949 still apply.
| Male | Female | Total | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Live Births | Legitimate | 459 | 467 | 926 | |||
| Illegitimate | 9 | 9 | 18 | ||||
| 468 | 476 | 944 | Birth Rate per 1,000 of the estimated population | 12.69 | |||
| Births Still | Legitimate | 12 | 8 | 20 | |||
| Illegitimate | — | 1 | 1 | ||||
| 12 | 9 | 21 | |||||
| Rate per 1,000 (live and still) births | 21.76 | ||||||
| Deaths from all causes and at all ages | 820 | Death Rate per 1,000 of the estimated population | 9.49 | ||||
| Deaths from puerperal causes: | Rate per 1,000 total (live and still) | ||||||
| Deaths | births | ||||||
| From puerperal sepsis | 0 | 0 | |||||
| From other causes | 2 | 2.07 | |||||
| 2 | 2.07 | ||||||