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ANNUAL REPORT
of the
MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH
FOR THE YEAR 1913.
Council Offices,
Acton,
March, 1914.
To the Chairman and Members
of the Urban District Council of Acton.
Miss Smee and Gentlemen,
I beg to submit my Annual Report on the Vital Statistics and
Sanitary conditions of the district for the year 1913.
The population at midsummer has been estimated at 60,000.
This is lower by over 2,000 than the estimate of the RegistrarGeneral.
The birth-rate still continues to diminish, and last year it was
the lowest on record.
The death-rate is slightly higher than that of 1912, but lower
than the quinquennial and the decennial average.
The infantile mortality is also higher than that of 1912,
but with that exception it is by a considerable margin the lowest
on record.
446 compulsory notifications of infectious diseases were
received. This number is lower than that of 1912, due to the
reduced prevalence of Scarlet Fever, only 80 cases of this disease
being notified compared with 315 in 1912.
There was an increase in the number of notifications of
Diphtheria, but the number of deaths from the disease remained
the same as in the previous year.