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Willesden 1930

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Willesden]

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THE FIFTY-FIFTH ANNUAL REPORT
FOR THE
Year ended 31st December, 1930,
ON THE
HEALTH AND SANITARY CONDITION OF THE
URBAN DISTRICT OF WILLESDEN.
GENERAL STATISTICS.
Area (acres) 4,384
Population (estimated Midsummer, 1930) 179,368
Population Census (1921) 167,200
Number of inhabited houses (Census, 1921) 23,719
Number of families or separate occupiers (Census, 1921) 41,235
Rateable value £1,258,304
Sum represented by a penny rate £5,296 (Approx.)
EXTRACTS FROM VITAL STATISTICS OF THE YEAR.
Births— Total.
Legitimate *2,776 Birth Rate (R.G.) 17.45
Illegitimate +93 Death Rate (R.G.) 10.03
Deaths +1,762
* (R.G.) 2,869. tH2. t 1,730.
Number of women dying in, or in consequence of, childbirth from sepsis 3
from other causes 8
Death Rate of Infants under one year of age per 1,000 live births :—
Legitimate ... 56 Illegitimate 204 Total 60.99
Deaths from Measles (all ages) 26
,, ,, Whooping Cough (all ages) 5
„ „ Diarrhoea (under 2 years of age) 26
Stillbirths registered 95
Stillbirth rate per 1,000 births 32.05

Table No. 9.

NOTIFIABLE DISEASES DURING THE YEAR.

Disease.Total Cases Notified.Cases admitted to Willesden Municipal Hospitals.Total Deaths.
Diphtheria49145719
Scarlet Fever5184393
Enteric Fever (including Paratyphoid)1071
Puerperal Fever523
Puerperal Pyrexia343—
Pneumonia2663122
Small Pox98—
Cholera———
Plague———
Erysipelas812010
Typhus Fever———
Relapsing Fever———
Continued Fever———
Cerebro-spinal Meningitis315
Poliomyelitis4—5
Ophthalmia Neonatorum382—
Malaria2——
Dysentery———
Encephalitis Lethargica313
Acute Polio-Encephalitis5——
Anthrax———
Tuberculosis:—
(a) Pulmonary258—124
(b) Non-Pulmonary73—14
Whooping Cough22965