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Barnes 1948
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Barnes]
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STATISTICS AND TABLES
BOROUGH OF BARNES.
VITAL STATISTICS.
The following statistical information relating to the Borough has been completed on receipt of the Local and National Statistics issued by the Registrar-General in connection with Population, Birth-rate, Death-rates, Maternal Mortality, Infantile Mortality, and Incidence of Notifiable Infectious Diseases.
TABLE 1.—STATISTICAL SUMMARY, 1948.
| Population :— | |||||
| Census, 1921 | 34,281 | ||||
| Census, 1931 | 42,440 | ||||
| Estimated—Mid-year, 1948 (Reg. Gen.) | 40,560 | ||||
| Births :— | |||||
| Birth-rate (per 1,000 of population) | 14.2 | ||||
| Live Births :— | Total. | M. | F. | ||
| Legitimate | 547 | 283 | 264 | ||
| Illegitimate | 29 | 15 | 14 | ||
| Total | 576 | 298 | 278 | ||
| Still Birth-rate (per 1,000 total births) | 12.0 | ||||
| Total | . M. | F. | |||
| Still Births (Legit. 5; Illegit. 2) | 7 | 5 | 2 | ||
| Deaths:— | |||||
| Death-rate, all causes (per 1,000 of population) | 11.0 | ||||
| Total. | M. | F. | |||
| Deaths (all causes) | 445 | 215 | 230 | ||
| Death-rate from Cancer (per 1,000 of population), 87 deaths | 2.1 | ||||
| Death-rate from Zymotic Diseases (per 1,000 of population) | - | ||||
| Death-rate from Maternal Causes (per 1,000 total births) Deaths from Puerperal Sepsis | 1.7 | ||||
| ,, ,, Other Puerperal causes | |||||
| Death-rate of infants under one year (per 1,000 live births) | 20.8 | ||||
| Death-rate for | Legitimate infants (11 deaths) | 201 | |||
| Illegitimate infants (1 death) | 34.5 | ||||