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Barnet 1925

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Barnet Urban District Council]

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The following table gives the density of population of each parish in the District:-

Perish.Area in Acres.Population.Density per acre .
Arkley.83011741.4
Chipping Barnet.379428211.3
Hadley.2737214.0
South Mirams.272572121.0
Totteridge.16048210.5

BIRTH RATE.
The nett number of Births registered in the District during the
year was 189, as compared with 156 in the previous year .
Of these Dirths 95 were male and 94 female.
The Birth-rate calculated as the rate per 1000 of the population,
is 15.5 as compared with 12.8 in 1924.
The nett illegitimate births registered give a proportion of 21.1
per 1000 of the total births.
death
162 deaths (nett) were registered in the District during the
past year, as compared with 120 in the previous year.
The crude death rate is 13.3 per 1000 of the population living
at all ages, and the corrected death rate 11.5.
Public Institutions such as the Wellhouse Hospital have to be
taken into account, as a large number of deaths accur in this
Institution belonging to other districts in the Union. It is therefore
necessary to make corrections by inward and outward transfers
of deaths.