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MEDICAL OFFICER S ANNUAL REPORT
Public Health Department,
Town Hall,
Hayes, Middlesex.
June, 1947.
To the Chairman and Members of the Urban District Council of
Hayes and Harlington
Mr. Chairman, Madam, and Gentlemen,
I have the honour of presenting to you the Forty-second
Annual Report on the health of your Urban District.
The health of this Urban District continues to be satisfactory
in spite of severe overcrowding of some of the population. The
condition under which some people live is very bad indeed, whole
families being confined to one room, without adequate facilities
for cooking, washing, drying clothes, etc. The housing problem
in Hayes is the most urgent matter requiring solution at the
present time.
The birth-rate continues to rise and is now just over 20 per
thousand of population. The death-rate is low at 6.97 per thousand,
while the infantile death-rate is the lowest ever reached in this
town, being only 24.5 per thousand live births.
Free immunisation against diphtheria is still not utilised to
the extent it should be in this town. Nine causes with four deaths
occurred during the year; in none of these cases, one of which
was an adult, had the patient been immunised. Deaths from
tuberculosis have dropped by about 30 per cent. from the 1945
figure while new cases notified have diminished by about 11 per
cent.
I should again like to express my appreciation of the help
given by the members and officers of the Council.
I have the honour to be,
Your obedient Servant,
J. STANLEY LLOYD,
Medical Officer of Health.
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