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The above works out the total population for the whole
parish at 18,862. I think the figures given to me up to Lady-day,
1895, as 17,031 very misleading, as they are based on the rate of 6
persons only per house. In West Hendon and Burnt Oak I know it
is over 7, and it must be remembered that ten years ago there was
not nearly the demand for houses as there is at the present time,
and yet houses have not been built in a corresponding proportion
to the increase of the population, with the natural consequences
that the present houses, which were estimated to contain an
average of 6 persons per house in 1891, now contain possibly an
average of 7½ per house. At the Midland Cottages, Cricklewood,
a census was taken last year of the number of persons in them,
and although these houses are only allowed to contain one family
in each, and perhaps a lodger, the average per house was 6¼.
VITAL STATISTICS.
Number of Deaths.—The total number of Deaths in the
Parish for the year is 330, as against 289 in the year 1895.
Ninety-five of these occurred in the Infirmary, 23 being chargeable
to Hendon Parish, the remainder being from Willesden,
Harrow, Great and Little Stanmore, Edgware, and Kingsbury.
Deducting 73, the number from these outlying Parishes, it leaves
257 to be accounted for in Hendon proper. Of this number 78
occurred in Hendon central district, 32 in the newly defined
district of West Hendon, 9 in Burnt Oak, 57 in Child's Hill, 32
in Cricklewood, 26 in Mill Hill, and 6 in Temple Fortune.
Ninety-five deaths occurred under one year, 49 from one and
under five, 14 from five and under fifteen years, 15 from fifteen
and under twenty-five years, 82 from twenty-five and under sixtyfive,
and 75 from sixty-five and upwards.
It will be seen that the number of deaths under five years is
very high, namely, 144, being nearly half the total number of
deaths in the whole parish. During the first six months of the
year a very large amount of sickness prevailed owing to a severe
outbreak of measles and whooping cough; these diseases have
accounted for 33 of the deaths under five years.