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This method gives a population of 49,54 3 persons, not
including those in Public Institutions. I also checked these
figures by the Logarithm method, which gives 48,968 persons.
Upon the former population the Birth and other Mortality
rates aire based in the substance of my Report.
Although a marked decrease in building operations
occurred during the year. 501 new houses were erected and
occupied, giving an increase in the population of 2,180 persons.
The greater portion of the new houses were erected
in the neighbourhoods of Golders Green and Child's Hill.
From a perusal of the Vital Statistics it will be seen
that the health of the residents has been satisfactorily maintained.
The average Birth Rate for the past six years is 23.43
per 1,000 as against a Birth Rate of 21.23 per 1,000 this
year. This falling off in the Birth Rate was naturally expected
under the existing abnormal conditions.
The corrected general Death Rate 10.44 per 1,000 compares
favourably with previous years.
The Infantile Mortality Rate, 73 per 1,000, is low and
satisfactory.
There was a considerable falling off of Infectious Diseases
notified during the year, and no disease assumed epidemic
form. The occurrence of other non-notifiable diseases,
notably measles, was somewhat prevalent.
The Isolation Hospital afforded the necessary accommodation
for Isolation of Scarlet Fever .patients, and very little
outside accommodation was required for other diseases.
Fifty Artizan dwellings in the Child's Hill district are
completed and occupied.
The question of insufficient housing accommodation in
Central and West Hendon, together with that of "Maternity
and Child Welfare," and other projected improvements, owing