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Hayes and Harlington 1944
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hayes]
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SECTION A
STATISTICS AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS OF THE AREA
Area (acres) 5,161
Population (census 1931) 23,646
Population (Mid-year) (1944), RegistrarGeneral's
Estimate: Working Population
Figure 59,020
Number of inhabited houses as at 31st December,
1944 15,498
Rateable Value (Estimate) £404,442
Product of a penny rate £1,642 5s. 2d.
UNEMPLOYMENT, 1944
Particulars not available.
Extracts from Vital Statistics of the Year
| Total | M. | F. | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Live Births— | Birth Rate per 1,000 of the estimated resident population 20.78 | |||||||
| Legitimate | 1,146 | 593 | 553 | |||||
| Illegitimate | 81 | 43 | 38 [ | |||||
| Stillbirths | 29 | 17 | 12 | Rate per 1,000 total (live and still) births 21.28 | ||||
| Deaths | 468 | 237 | 231 | Death Rate per 1,000 of the estimated resident population 7.92 | ||||
| Deaths from puerperal causes:— | ||||||||
| Deaths | ||||||||
| Puerperal sepsis | — | 0.00 | ||||||
| Other puerperal causes | 1 | 0.79 | ||||||
| Total | 1 | 0.79 | ||||||
| Death rate of infants under one year of age.:— | ||||||||
| All infants per 1,000 live births | 37.43 | |||||||
| Legitimate infants per 1,000. legitimate live births | 38.31 | |||||||
| Illegitimate infants per 1,000 illegitimate live births | 24.69 | |||||||
| Deaths from Cancer (all ages) | 31 | 41 | 72 | |||||
| Deaths from Measles (all ages) | — | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Deaths from Whooping Cough (all ages) | — | 2 | 2 | |||||
| Deaths from Diarrhoea (under 2 years of age) | 6 | 2 | 8 | |||||
| Deaths from Tubeiculosis of resp. system (all ages) | 17 | 14 | 31 | |||||
| Deaths from Tuberculosis (other forms) (all ages) | 2 | 3 | 5 | |||||
| Deaths from Heart Disease (all ages) | 45 | 39 | 84 | |||||
| Deaths from Bronchitis (all ages) | 15 | 7 | 22 | |||||
| Deaths from Pneumonia (all forms) (all ages) | 17 | 11 | 28 | |||||