[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Enfield].

  • Enfield (London, England). Urban District Council.
Date:
[1955?]
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Credit: [Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Enfield]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    12 BIRTHS The corrected birth rates for both sexes, live and still births, which takes into consideration those born outside the District and those in the District not rightly recorded to the District, and also the corrected birth rates for the last five years are :— Year. Boys. Girls. Total. Birth-rate per 1,000 Population. Illegitimate Birth-rate per 1,000 Population. 1950 816 782 1,598 14.31 0.57 1951 775 813 1,588 14.45 0.38 1952 715 747 1,462 13.32 0.38 1953 698 676 1,374 12.57 0.45 1954 709 706 1,415 12.95 0.52 INQUESTS Forty-eight Inquests and two-hundred-and-twenty-four Post mortem examinations without inquests were held during the year. Of these, 227 deaths were due to natural causes, 26 to accidental causes, 14 to suicide, 2 to misadventure, and in 3 cases an open verdict was recorded. FATAL HOME ACCIDENTS. Two years ago I wrote at some length on this subject, com paring Enfield figures with the National pattern. This year again in Enfield the emphasis is on fatal accidents to the aged, all being between the ages of 62 and 92 years, except 3 persons aged 17,45 and 55 years. The 14 fatal home accidents to Enfield residents involved 9 females and 5 males. The causes of death in six females and three males were falls causing fractured bones followed by lung complications. The cause in the case of one female and one male was coal gas poison ing, in one female the cause was shock due to burns sustained when clothing caught fire, in another to toxaemia due to burns sustained when trying to extinguish flames of a burning mattress, and the cause of one other male was suppurative bronchitis following barbiturate poisoning.
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