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1918
ANNUAL REPORT
op the
MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH
FOR THE YEAR 1918.
Council Offices,
Acton, W.3.
July, 1919.
To the Chairman and Members
of the Urban District Council of Acton.
Ladies and Gentlemen,
I beg to submit my Annual Report for the year 1918.
The Report is again condensed and only some features are
commented on. The remaining subjects are set forth in
tabular form.
In previous reports it was stated that the Registrar
General made two estimates of the population—one for deathrate
purposes and the other for the birth-rate. The former is
an estimate of the civil population only, whilst the latter
includes the men on military service. I have discarded both
estimates.
For 1917, the Registrar General estimated the civil
population at 58,507 and the total population at (55,219. In
last year's report I stated that both these estimates were approximately
correct. In 1917, over 58,000 sugar cards were issued
and there were over 7,000 Acton inhabitants on military duty.
For the year 1918, the Registrar General estimated the
population at 57,221 for death-rate purposes and 64.114 for
birth-rate purposes. These figures were based upon returns of