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Barnes 1949
[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, 1949.
| Population:— | |
| Census, 1921 | 34,281 |
| Census, 1931 | 42,440 |
| Estimated—Mid-year, 1949 (Reg. Gen.) Civilian (Total 41.070) | 40,960 |
Births :—
Birth-rate (per 1,000 of population) 12.6
Live Births :— Total. M. F.
Legitimate 492 252 240
Illegitimate 24 11 13
Total 516 263 253
Still Birth-rate (per 1,000 total births) 7.7
Total. M. F.
Still Births (Legit. 4; Illegit. —) 4 3 1
Deaths :—
Death-rate, all causes (per 1,000 of population) 10 0
(Registrar General's Comparability Factor .87) Total M. F.
Deaths (all causes) . . 471 232 239
Death-rate from Cancer (per 1,000 of population),
93 deaths 2.2
Death-rate from Zymotic Diseases (per 1,000 of
population) —
Death-rate from Maternal Causes (per 1,000 total births) —
Deaths from Puerperal Sepsis —
,, ,, Other Puerperal causes —
Death-rate of infants under one year (per 1,000 live
births) 13.5
Death-fate legimate infants(7deaths)
illegimate infants (- deaths) 14.2