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Town Hall,
Dyne Road, Kilburn, London, N.W. 6.
1st May, 1937.
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 1936. This
Report includes :—
(i.) The 61st Annual Report on the health and sanitary condition of the district ;
(ii.) The 29th Annual Report on the health of children attending the public elementary
schools ;
(iii.) The 3rd Annual Report on the work in connection with Abnormal Children.
(iv.) The 17th Annual Report on the health of children attending secondary and technical
schools ;
(v.) The 19th Annual Report on dental work in connection with school children,
expectant and nursing mothers and children under 5 years ;
(vi.) The 7th Annual Report on the Supervision of Midwives ;
(vii.) The 7th Annual Report on the Registration of Nursing Homes ;
(viii.) The 7th Annual Report on Infant Life Protection ;
(ix.) The 17th Annual Report on home nursing ;
(x.) The 22nd Annual Report on the provision of meals to children attending the public
elementary schools ;
(xi.) The 45th Annual Report on the Municipal Hospital;
(xii.) The 6th Annual Report on the Maternity Hospital;
(xiii.) The 7th Annual Report on the health of patients attending the Middlesex County
Council Occupation Centre for Mentally Defectives, Buller Road, Willesden ;
(xiv.) The 6th 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, 1936, was 202,505.
2,835 live births were registered during 1936, giving a birth rate of 14-00 per 1,000 of the
population, as against 14-35 in 1935. 86 still births were registered, giving a still birth rate of 29-44
per 1,000 total live and still births.
2,113 deaths were registered in 1936, giving a death rate of 10-43 per 1,000 of the population.
These figures compare with a total number of deaths of 1,933 and a death-rate of 9-74 in 1935.
The infantile mortality rate for the year 1936 was 59-96 per 1,000 births. Altogether 170
children under one year of age died in 1936.