Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[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. |
---|---|---|---|
Diphtheria | 491 | 457 | 19 |
Scarlet Fever | 518 | 439 | 3 |
Enteric Fever (including Paratyphoid) | 10 | 7 | 1 |
Puerperal Fever | 5 | 2 | 3 |
Puerperal Pyrexia | 34 | 3 | — |
Pneumonia | 266 | 3 | 122 |
Small Pox | 9 | 8 | — |
Cholera | — | — | — |
Plague | — | — | — |
Erysipelas | 81 | 20 | 10 |
Typhus Fever | — | — | — |
Relapsing Fever | — | — | — |
Continued Fever | — | — | — |
Cerebro-spinal Meningitis | 3 | 1 | 5 |
Poliomyelitis | 4 | — | 5 |
Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 38 | 2 | — |
Malaria | 2 | — | — |
Dysentery | — | — | — |
Encephalitis Lethargica | 3 | 1 | 3 |
Acute Polio-Encephalitis | 5 | — | — |
Anthrax | — | — | — |
Tuberculosis:— | |||
258 | — | 124 | |
73 | — | 14 | |
Whooping Cough | 229 | 6 | 5 |