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Wembley 1942
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wembley]
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H. PUBLIC HEALTH DEPARTMENT - FULL TIME STAFF, AUGUST 1943.
(Figures in brackets refer to December 1938 - last pre-war year).
| Medical Specialist Technical | Medical Officers | 4 (3) | 30 (24) | ||
| Health Visitors | 12 (10) | ||||
| (Sanitary Inspectors | 6 (6) | ||||
| (Home Helps | 3 (0) | ||||
| (Disinfectors etc. | 5 (5) | ||||
| Day Nurseries | 65 (0) | Clerical Administrative Executive | |||
| Civil Defence (Casualty Medical Service and also Manning Civil Ambulance Service) | 152 (0) | 13 (10) | |||
| 260 (34) | |||||
SUMMARY.
The public health was well maintained throughout
still another full war year. The number of births
recorded and the birth rate were the largest for any
year, so far, in the Borough. The infantile mortality
rate was the smallest, being 34.16 per thousand live
births (1,988 live births), the previous lowest
infantile mortality rate having been 34.26 in 1935
(1,605 live births). Forty six per cent of the
infant deaths in 1942 took place within the first
week of life, the period during which the nonpreventible
deaths mostly occur. The percentages
of deaths at stated ages show that the Borough's
population is settling, and the percentages of total
deaths under 1 year and under 50 years should be now
expected to tend to fall for a number of years. The
incidence of the infectious diseases was not abnormal
except for a rise in the number of notifications of
scarlet fever. The number of cases of cerebro spinal
54.