View report page

3
Town Hall,
Dyne Road, Kilburn, N.W. 6.
30th April, 1926.
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 1925. This
Report includes:—
(i.) The 50th Annual Report on the health and sanitary condition of the district;
(ii.) The 18th Annual Report on the health of children attending the public elementary
schools;
(iii.) The 6th Annual Report on the health of children attending secondary schools;
(iv.) The 8th 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 6th Annual Report on home nursing;
(vi.) The 11th Annual Report on the provision of meals to children attending the public
elementary schools;
(vii.) The 34th 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, 1925, was 172,503.
2,755 births occurred in Willesden during 1925, giving a birth rate of 15.97'per 1,000 of the
population. Excluding the War year 1918, this is the lowest birth rate ever recorded in Willesden.
1,686 deaths occurred in 1925, giving a death rate of 9.77 per 1,000 of the population.
The infant mortality rate in 1925 was 62 per 1,000 births. This infant mortality rate is an
improvement on the 73 per 1,000 births of 1924, but did not fall to the low level of the two previous
years, 1923 and 1922, when it was only 53 and 59 respectively.
170 deaths of infants under one year occurred. 140 or 82.4 per cent. of these 170 deaths
were due to:—
1. Congenital Malformations 11, Premature Births 43, Atrophy, Debility and Marasmus
13, Atelectasis 8;
2. Diarrhoea and Enteritis 13;
3. Whooping Cough 13;
4. Measles 3;
5. Bronchitis 6; and
6. Pneumonia 30.
Year by year these six causes of death account for some 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 1925, 1,883 cases of Infectious Disease were notified as compared with 1,458
in the previous year. The total of 1,883 includes 304 notifications of Diphtheria, as compared
with 327 in 1924, and 263 cases of Scarlet Fever as compared with 244 in the previous year.
Return Cases of Scarlet Fever.—The following statement gives the return cases that have
occurred during 1925:—
I. Home Cases.—Approximately 28.
(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