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Town Hall,
Dyne Road, Kilburn, London, N.W. 6.
1st May, 1936.
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 1935. This
Report includes:—
(i.) The 60th Annual Report on the health and sanitary condition of the district;
(ii.) The 28th Annual Report on the health of children attending the public elementary
schools;
(iii.) The 16th Annual Report on the health of children attending secondary and trade
schools;
(iv.) The 18th Annual Report on dental work in connection with school children,
expectant and nursing mothers and children under 5 years;
(v.) The 6th Annual Report on the Supervision of Midwives;
(vi.) The 6th Annual Report on the Registration of Nursing Homes;
(vii.) The 6th Annual Report on Infant Life Protection;
(viii.) The 16th Annual Report on home nursing;
(ix.) The 21st Annual Report on the provision of meals to children attending the public
elementary schools;
(x.) The 44th Annual Report on the Municipal Hospital;
(xi.) The 5th Annual Report on the Maternity Hospital;
(xii.) The 6th Annual Report on the health of patients attending the Middlesex County
Council Occupation Centre for Mentally Defectives, Buller Road, Willesden;
(xiii.) The 5th Annual Report on Nursery Classes;
(xiv.) The 2nd 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, 1935, was 198,433.
2,848 live births were registered during 1935, giving a birth rate of 14.35 per 1,000 of the
population, as against 14.05 in 1934. 84 still births were registered, giving a still birth rate of 28.65
per 1,000 total live and still births.
1,933 deaths were registered in 1935, giving a death rate of 9.74 per 1,000 of the population.
These figures compare with a total number of deaths of 1,940 and a death-rate of 9.93 in 1934.
The infantile mortality rate for the year 1935 was 66.01 per 1,000 births. This is higher than
in any year since 1924 when the infantile mortality rate was 73 per 1,000 births. Altogether 188
children under one year of age died in 1935.