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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Willesden 1916
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Willesden]
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CERTAIN STATISTICAL DATA—1916.
No. of Occupiable Houses 23,540
Estimated Population 167,810
No. of Marriages 1,279
Marriage Rate per 1,000 15.2
No. of Births 3,668
Birth Rate per 1,000 21.9
No. of Illegitimate Births 115
No. of Deaths 1,710
Death Rate per 1,000 10.19
No. of Infant Deaths 283
Infant Death Rate per 1,000 Births 77.15
No. of Cases of Notifiable Diseases 2,513
Scarlet Fever 387
Diphtheria 225
Cerebro Spinal Meningitis 8
Measles 871
1,437
German Measles 566
Tuberculosis 322
Erysipelas 87
Enteric Fever 3
Puerperal Fever 11
Poliomyelitis 5
Ophthalmia Neonatorum 28