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Town Hall,
Dyne Road, Kilburn, N.W. 6.
1st May, 1934.
To the Willesden Borough Council—
The Local Sanitary Authority,
and the Local Education Authority.
I beg to submit herewith the Annual Health Report for Willesden for the year 1933. This
Report includes:—
(i.) The 58th Annual Report on the health and sanitary condition of the district ;
(ii.) The 26th Annual Report on the health of children attending the public elementary
schools ;
(iii.) The 14th Annual Report on the health of children attending secondary and trade
schools ;
(iv.) The 16th 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 4th Annual Report on the Supervision of Midwives ;
(vi.) The 4th Annual Report on the Registration of Nursing Homes ;
(vii.) The 4th Annual Report on Infant Life Protection ;
(viii.) The 14th Annual Report on home nursing ;
(ix.) The 19th Annual Report on the provision of meals to children attending the public
elementary schools ;
(x.) The 42nd Annual Report on the Municipal Hospital;
(xi.) The 3rd Annual Report on the Maternity Hospital ;
(xii.) The 4th Annual Report on the health of patients attending the Middlesex County
Council Occupation Centre for Mentally Defectives, Buller Road, Willesden ;
(xiii.) The 3rd 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, 1933, was 190,875.
2,671 live births were registered during 1933, giving a birth rate of 13.99 per 1,000 of the
population, as against 14.58 in 1932. 90 still births were registered, giving a still birth rate of
32.60 per 1,000 total live and still births.
1,885 deaths were registered in 1933, giving a death rate of 9.88 per 1,000 of the
population. These figures compare with a total number of deaths of 1,838 and a death-rate of
9.77 in 1932.
The infant mortality rate in 1933 was 46.05 per 1,000 births. This is the lowest ever recorded
in Willesden, the lowest up till this year having been 53 in 1923 and again in 1926.
123 deaths of infants under one year occurred. 1ll or 90 per cent. of these 123 deaths
were due to:—
Congenital Malformations 10, Premature Birth 35, Atrophy, Debility and Marasmus
11, Atelectasis 11;
Diarrhoea and Enteritis 27;
Whooping Cough 5;
Bronchitis 2, and
Pneumonia 10.
No death of an infant under one year of age occurred from Measles in 1933.
Year by year these causes of death account for more than three-quarters of all deaths of infants
under one year of age and active measures are required to prevent these conditions proving fatal.