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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

East Barnet 1895

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for East Barnet]

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Twenty-one deaths were registered under the seven
chief Zymotic: Small Pox 0, Measles 0, Scarlet Fever 3,
Diphtheria 1, Whooping Cough 6, Fever (continued, including
Influenza) 3, Diarrhoea and Dysentry 8.
The Zymotic death-rate was 2.2.
All the deaths were certified.
The deaths of infants under one year of age were in
the proportion of 164 per 1,000 births.
During the year 220 births were registered, 122 boys,
98 girls, giving a birth-rate of 23.5 per 1,000.

Table: The following table will be found useful in comparing the vital statistics during the last fifteen years :

The following table will be found useful in comparing the vital statistics during the last fifteen years :

Year.Population.Birth rate.Death rate.*Infantile mortality.Zymotic death rate.
18815,78834.211.57.51.4
18325,80831.114.9113.2
18836,05431.311.510.51
18846,17631.713.412.21.4
18856,29826.512.811.90.3
18366,42028.512.79.20.7
18876,54226.413.29.81.8
18886,66428.011.58.51.5
18896,78627.51190.29
18907,59025129.52.7
18917,750251272.4
18928,3002711.76.21.08
18938,50023.8106.41.06
18948,70022.69.510.41.29
18959,35023.513.116.42.2

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* Infantile Mortality = ratio of deaths under one year to 100 births.