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Annual Report of the
Medical Officer of Health
For the Year 1952
Public Health Department,
Council Offices,
Northwood.
June, 1953
To the Chairmen and Members of the
Ruislip-Northwood Urban District Council.
Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen,
In submitting to you this my Annual Report for the year 1952,
there are one or two facts which I should like to stress with regard
to the statistics shown in the following pages.
In the first place, the population of the district has again risen
according to the Registrar General's estimate from 69,640 to 71,220
and it is on this figure that the Birth and Death Rates have been
calculated.
Both the Crude Birth Rate and the Crude Death Rate show a
slight decrease from the previous year, but the infantile mortality
shows a definite increase, partly owing to the fact that there were
more deaths than in 1951 and the Birth Rate has again declined.
Owing to the somewhat high incidence of infantile deaths I have
set out under this heading a table showing the causes of death in
the hopes that it may emphasise the extreme care which is necessary
with regard to the new born child especially as regards respiratory
diseases. No maternal deaths were recorded.
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