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2
ANNUAL REPORT
of the
MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH
FOR THE YEAR 1955
Public Health Department,
Town Hall,
Acton, W.3.
To the Mayor, Aldermen and Councillors
of the Borough of Acton.
In submitting the Annual Report for 1955 I should like to draw
attention to the low death rate of children under one year of age.
Seventeen children died giving a mortality rate of 20.0 per 1,000
live births, compared with 24.9 for England and Wales. In 1900
for every 1,000 children born 168 died, and this drop in the death
rate over a period of 55 years, although slow, has probably been
due to the use of clinics and to health propaganda.
With regard to infectious diseases, there were 28 confirmed;
cases of poliomyelitis with no deaths. A small outbreak of typhoid
fever occurred in eight residents of the Borough and five residents
in other Boroughs. One person died.
The number of deaths from cancer of the lung or bronchus is
still increasing as may be seen from the table below.