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Beaconsfield House
Hanwell W. ???.
1919.
To the chairman & Members of
The Greenford U. D. Council
Gentlemen,
I regret that owing to unavoidable circumstances, my
Twenty Second Annual Report should have been so long delayed:
During the year 1918. , as in the 3 previous years
everything (excepting matters of urgency) was sacrificed owing to
the exisencies of the War so that there is very little to report as
to what has been done, but to consider the steps to be taken for
the future:- and this will require time, for it is obvious that
destruction of any kind can be affected much quicker than the
opposite (construction) and unless the latter is carried out after
due consideration of the necessities and variations required in
each District the peculiarities of which vary so much that the
test made plans drawn up by one not being ??? of the needs of
a locality, may, and probably will prove a failure as may be seen
by referring to the return appended hereto from the General Register
office and an explanation referring thereto the population of the
District for the purpose of calculating the Birth rate. is 140l
whereas that for calculating the Death date is 1250 and when divided
into the several perishes and estimate it as follows:-
For Birth Rate For Death Rate
Greenford 1201 1100
Perivale 150 85
West Twyford 50 65
Total 140l 1250
The number of Deaths (Civilians only) was 23
viz: 12 males and 11 females, the death rate is therefore
18.4 per 1000.
The figures are so small as Pre-quently stated in my
previous Reports that very little reliance can be placed upon them
in estimating the public Health of the District, the infantile
Fortality and any increase of deaths in any one particular class
of disease may be relied on with more confidence.
There was only one death in the former a male under
1 year (and legitimately born) so the the infantile Mortality rate
(the numbers of deaths of infants under 12 months old out of the
number of Births during the year) in this instance 16 gives a rate
for this class of 62.5 per 1000 Births.
There was no incidence of deaths from any special
disease:-
Influenza so prevalent and fatal in the surrounding Districts caused
only 3 deaths (all females) although the complaint was very
prevalent especially during the last few months of the year and
carried on to the following 1919.
A comsiderable number of deaths (at pointed cut in
my previous Reports) ??? at a Home for Invalids carried on at
Twyford Abby, some of these are transferred to the place from which
they come by the Registrar General, but not in every instance, probably
owing to the difficulty in tracing their original address, in this
way the numbers of deaths credited to this District is greater then
it would otherwise be.