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WIL 22
Town Hall,
Dyne Road, Kilburn, N.W. 6.
30th April, 1925.
To the Willesden Urban District Council—
The Local Sanitary Authority,
and the Local Education Authority.
I beg to submit herewith the Annual Health Report for Willesden for the year 1924. This
Report includes:—
(i.) The 49th Annual Report on the health and sanitary condition of the district;
(ii.) The 17th Annual Report on the health of children attending the public elementary
schools ;
(iii.) The 5th Annual Report on the health of children attending secondary schools;
(iv.) The 7th Annual Report on dental work in connection with children attending the
public elementary schools, expectant and nursing mothers and children
under 5 years;
(v.) The 5th Annual Report on home nursing;
(vi.) The 10th Annual Report on the provision of meals to children attending the public
elementary schools;
(vii.) The 33rd Annual Report on the Municipal Hospital.
The Report is written in accordance with the requirements of the Ministry of Health and
Board of Education.
VITAL STATISTICS.
The population of Willesden at Midsummer, 1924, was 171,161.
2,843 births occurred in Willesden during 1924, giving a birth rate of 16-61 per 1,000 of the
population. Excluding certain War years, this is the lowest birth rate ever recorded in Willesden
during a normal year.
1,782 deaths occurred in 1924, giving a death rate of 10.41 per 1,000 of the population.
The infant mortality rate which in 1922 was 59 and in 1923 53 rose last year to 73 per thousand
births.
208 deaths of infants under one year occurred. 164 or 78.8 per cent of these 208 deaths
were due to:—
1. Congenital Malformations (11), Premature Births (45), Atrophy, Debility and
Marasmus (32);
2. Diarrhoea and Enteritis (10);
3. Whooping Cough (8) ;
4. Measles (10);
5. Bronchitis (12) ; and
6. Pneumonia (36).
Year by year these six causes of death account for some 75 to 80 per cent, of all deaths of
infants under one year of age and active measures are required to prevent these conditions proving
fatal.
INFECTIOUS DISEASES.
During the year 1924, 1,458 cases of Infectious Disease were notified as compared with 1,624
in the previous year. The total of 1,458 includes 327 notifications of Diphtheria, as compared
with 456 in 1923, and 244 cases of Scarlet Fever as compared with 248 in the previous year.
2 deaths from Scarlet Fever and 9 deaths from Diphtheria were recorded in 1924, as compared
with 3 deaths from Scarlet Fever and 21 from Diphtheria in 1923.
Return Cases of Scarlet Fever.—The following statement gives the return cases that have
occurred during 1924 :—
I. Home Cases.—Approximately 47.
(a) No. of infecting cases giving rise to return cases not longer than
28 days after release from isolation 0
„ return cases they gave rise to 0
„ infecting cases per cent, of total home cases 0
,, return cases per cent, of total home cases 0