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BARNET URBAN DISTRICT COUNCIL.
MEDICAL OFFICER'S REPORT.
Health. Department.,
Municipal Offices,
Barnet.
March, 1919.
To the Chairman & Members of the
Barnet Urban District Council.
Gentlemen,
I beg to present my Ninth Annual Report on the Health of
the District for the year 1918.
1 returned iron Active Service in March, 1918. In accordance
with instructions from the Local Government Board, I am furnishing
a short interim report and many of the usual details are omitted.
The Infantile Mortality Rate has been 98 per 1,000. The
number of Infantile Deaths has been 10 - of these 4 were due to
premature birth, 1 to congenital heart disease, 1 to jaundice and
3 to diseases usually styled "preventible," that is, 2 to pneumonia,
and 1 to convulsions. The average infantile mortality rate for the
last 5 years has been 73.
Birth Rate, This has been 10.4 per 1,000. Total births 125
Boys 61 - Girls 64. The number of births is about half the prewar
number and is due largely to war conditions, and the limitation
of families associated with high prices and difficult conditions of
life. Illegitimate Births. Boys 4 - Girls 3.
Death Rate. The Death Rate has been 14.5. Total deaths 156 - Men 74
Women 80.
Influenza'deaths were 20, Women 16 - Men 4. Cancer deaths
15, Women 6-Men 9,
Infectious Diseases. During the year there were 168 cases of Infect-
ious Disease. The number of deaths from diseases of this class was
11 - Tuberculosis 9, Scarlet Fever 1, Diphtheria' 1.
The following cases were notified
Measles 35
Tuberculosis 37
Chicken-pox 71
Scarlet Fever 11
Diphtheria 9
Cerebro Spinal 1
Fever
Erysipelas 3
Para-Typhoid 1
The following Diseases are now notifiable in this District:-