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Town Hall,
Dyne Road, Kilburn, N.W. 6.
1st May, 1933.
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 1932. This
Report includes:—
(i.) The 57th Annual Report on the health and sanitary condition of the district;
(ii.) The 25th Annual Report on the health of children attending the public elementary
schools;
(iii.) The 13th Annual Report on the health of children attending secondary and trade
schools;
(iv.) The 15th 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 3rd Annual Report on the Supervision of Midwives;
(vi.) The 3rd Annual Report on the Registration of Nursing Homes;
(vii.) The 3rd Annual Report on Infant Life Protection;
(viii.) The 13th Annual Report on home nursing;
(ix.) The 18th Annual Report on the provision of meals to children attending the public
elementary schools;
(x.) The 41st Annual Report on the Municipal Hospital;
(xi.) The 2nd Annual Report on the Maternity Hospital;
(xii.) The 3rd Annual Report on the health of patients attending the Middlesex County
Council Occupation Centre for Mentally Defectives, Buller Road, Willesden ;
(xiii.) The 2nd Annual Report on Nursery Classes.
The Report is written in accordance with the requirements of the Ministry of Health and
Board of Education.
VITAL STATISTICS.
The estimated population of Willesden at Midsummer, 1932, was 188,216.
2,745 live births were registered during 1932, giving a birth rate of 14.58 per 1,000 of the
population, as against 15.28 in 1931. 107 still births were registered, giving a still birth rate of
37.52 per 1,000 total live and still births.
1,838 deaths were registered in 1932, giving a death rate of 9.77 per 1,000 of the
population. These figures compare with a total number of deaths of 1,935 and a death-rate
of 10.42 in 1931.
The infant mortality rate in 1932 was 61.20 per 1,000 births.
168 deaths of infants under one year occurred. 131 or 78 per cent. of these 168 deaths
were due to:—
1. Congenital Malformations 10, Premature Birth 40, Atrophy, Debility and Marasmus
12, Atelectasis 4;
2. Diarrhoea and Enteritis 31;
3. Whooping Cough 1;
4. Measles 4;
5. Bronchitis 3, and
6. Pneumonia 26.
Year by year these six causes of death account for some three-quarters of all deaths of infants
under one year of age and active measures are required to prevent these conditions proving fatal.
CANCER.
The heavy death-rate from cancer continues in all countries in which there are reliable
statistics. In Willesden in 1932 there were 250 deaths from this cause as compared with 250, 214,
239, 240 and 217 in the years 1931 to 1927.