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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 1952
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Southgate]
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percentage of births notified was therefore 98.27 as compared with
99.02 in 1951.
The fall in the birth rate is intimately bound up with the
distribution of the population in its various age-groups, as discussed
above. As an increase in the birth rate to the level experienced
immediately after the war would present a series of almost
insoluble problems within the Borough, it might be well to say
no more on this subject.
MORTALITY
General Mortality and Death Rate
The nett number of deaths accredited to this district was 900,
51 less than in 1951.
This gives a crude death rate of 12.42 per 1,000 of the population and a corrected death rate of 10.55 (rate for 1951 was 1 1.098).
| No. of Deaths | Death Rates | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Southgate | England & Wales | London | ||
| 1948 | 770 | 10.40 | 10.8 | 11.6 |
| 1949 | 820 | 9.49 | 11.7 | 12.2 |
| 1950 | 868 | 10.06 | 11.6 | 11.8 |
| 1951 | 951 | 11.098 | 12.5 | 13.1 |
| 1952 . | 900 | 10.55 | 11.3 | 12.6 |
Infant Mortality
There were nine deaths of infants under one year of age, which
gives an infantile death rate of 11.61 per 1,000 births, as compared
with 13 deaths and a rate of 16.494 in the preceding year.
The corresponding rates for England and Wales and London
were 27.6 and 23.8 respectively.
The infant deaths and rates for the past five years were as follows:
| No. of Deaths | Infantile Death Rates | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Southgate | England-& Wales | London | ||
| 1948 | 23 | 22.68 | 34 | 31 |
| 1949 | 24 | 25.42 | 32 | 29 |
| 1950 | 20 | 23.25 | 29.8 | 26.3 |
| 1951 | 13 | 15.49 | 29.6 | 26.4 |
| 1952 | 9 | 11.61 | 27.6 | 23.8 |
As noted in the introduction to the Report, the Infant
Mortality Rate for 1952 is once again a record for the Borough.
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