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seven : two males and five females, and six fatal
cases of infectious diseases occurred in the various
Metropolitan hospitals. These all make a total of
1,143 deaths of persons belonging to the District
and an average rate of 14.5 per 1,000. The deaths
in other institutions and places outside the District
I have no knowledge of so am obliged to consider
them counterbalanced by the deaths in the District
of persons not belonging to it.
The rate for England and Wales for the year
has been 18.8. In 33 great towns, 20.6 ; in 67 other
large town districts, of which Willesden is one, 18.8.
In Willesden the average rates for three series
of five years each from 1881 were 16.6: 14.4 and
14.3, but the last contains the deaths that have
occurred during three years in the workhouse, which
the other series do not, so that the rate is a little
more favourable in the last series than actually
appears. We find therefore, what I think may be
regarded as an interesting fact, that although the
population has increased from 27,362 in 1881 to
79,000 in 1895, the general health of the District
has not only been maintained but rather improved
with its growth.
Infant Deaths.—The deaths of infants under
one year of age have been 373, being 34.4 per cent,
of total deaths registered in Willesden, and 15 per
cent, of total births. Of children under five years