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Town Hall,
Dyne Road, Kilburn, N.W. 6.
1st April, 1935.
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 1934. This
Report includes:—
(i.) The 59th Annual Report on the health and sanitary condition of the district;
(ii.) The 27th Annual Report on the health of children attending the public elementary
schools;
(iii.) The 15th Annual Report on the health of children attending secondary and trade
schools;
(iv.) The 17th 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 5th Annual Report on the Supervision of Midwives;
(vi.) The 5th Annual Report on the Registration of Nursing Homes;
(vii.) The 5th Annual Report on Infant Life Protection;
(viii.) The 15th Annual Report on home nursing;
(ix.) The 20th Annual Report on the provision of meals to children attending the public
elementary schools;
(x.) The 43rd Annual Report on the Municipal Hospital;
(xi.) The 4th Annual Report on the Maternity Hospital;
(xii.) The 5th Annual Report on the health of patients attending the Middlesex County
Council Occupation Centre for Mentally Defectives, Buller Road, Willesden;
(xiii.) The 4th Annual Report on Nursery Classes.
(xiv.) The 1st Annual Report on the work in connection with Abnormal Children.
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, 1934, was 195,295.
2,743 live births were registered during 1934, giving a birth rate of 14.05 per 1,000 of the
population, as against 13.99 in 1933. 96 still births were registered, giving a still birth rate of 33.81
per 1,000 total live and still births.
1,940 deaths were registered in 1934, giving a death rate of 9.93 per 1,000 of the population.
These figures compare with a total number of deaths of 1,885 and a death-rate of 9..88 in 1933.
The infant mortality rate in 1934 was 43.38 per 1,000 births. This is the lowest ever recorded
in Willesden, the lowest up till this year having been 46.05 in 1933.
119 deaths of infants under one year occurred. 99 or 83.2 per cent. of these 119 deaths
were due to:—
Congenital Malformations 16, Premature Birth 29, Atrophy, Debility and Marasmus
7, Atelectasis 9.
Diarrhoea and Enteritis 20;
Measles 1;
Whooping Cough 1;
Bronchitis 1, and
Pneumonia 15.
Year by year these causes of death account for round about 80 per cent. of all deaths of infants
under one year of age and active measures are required to prevent these conditions proving fatal.