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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 1897

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

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Diphtheria (and Membranous Croup) 5, Whooping Cough 2,
Fever (continued) 0, Diarrhoea and Dysentery 6. Showing
a Zymotic death rate of 1.6.
The deaths of infants under one year of age were in
the proportion of 123 to 1,000 Births.
Only 195 births were registered during the year, as
against 219 in the previous year, giving a birth rate of 19.5
per 1,000.

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

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

Year.Population.Birth rate.Death rate.*Infantile mortality.Zymotic death rate.
18815,78834.211.57.51.4
18825,80831.114.9113.2
18836,05431.311.510.51
18846,17631.713.412.21.4
18856,29826.512.811.90.3
18866,42028.512.79.20.7
18876,54226.413.29.81.8
18886,6642811.58.51.5
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
18969,60022.811.711.41.98
189710,00019.59.612.31.6

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