[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Willesden] page 6

Willesden 1951

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Willesden]

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TABLE 1 Illegitimate Births 1936-51

Year	Illegitimate births	Registered live births	Illegitimate birth rate per 1,000 registered live births
1936	163	2918	55.86
1937	206	3125	65.92
1938	183	3027	60.45
1939	171	3004	56.92
1940	127	2571	49.40
1941	122	2060	59.51
1942	174	2651	65.63
1943	203	2838	71.53
1944	183	2929	62.48
1945	269	2807	95.83
1946	230	3572	64.38
1947	266	3859	68.93
1948	186	3147	59.10
1949	159	2895	54.92
1950	171	2735	62.06
1951	179	2559	69.94
N.B.—The figures used in the tables in this report are those supplied by the Registrar General.

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TABLE 2

Infant Deaths and Still Births. Willesden and England and Wales, 1936-51.

Year	Population	Births Willesden	Deaths under 1 year Willesden	Infant Death rate Willesden	Infant death rate, England and Wales	Still births Willesden	Still birth rate Willesden	Still birth rate, England and Wales
1936	190,000	2918	170	58.26	59	89	29.59	40
1937	188,030	3125	197	63.68	58	99	30.71	39
1938	187,600	3027	160	53.85	53	101	32.29	38
1939	188,000	3004	152	50.60	50	84	27.17	38
1940	152,030	2571	121	47.06	56	89	33.56	37
1941	127,230	2060	94	45.63	59	58	27.38	34
1942	138,600	2651	128	48.28	51	89	32.48	33
1943	144,430	2838	151	53.21	49	80	27.42	30
1944	139,510	2929	115	39.26	46	79	26.26	28
1945	161,954	2807	129	45.96	46	68	23.65	28
1946	170,550	3572	102	28.55	43	95	25.91	27
1947	175,900	3859	117	30.32	41	95	24.02	24
1948	179,900	3147	74	23.51	34	71	22.06	23
1949	181,120	2895	74	25.56	32	74	24.92	23
1950	181,700	2735	63	23.03	30	63	22.52	23
1951	179,647 (Census)	2559	73	28.53	30	57	21.79	23

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TABLE 3

Causes of Infant Deaths in Willesden (based on Registrar General's figures)

	1936-1939		1940-1945		1946-1951		1936-1939 1946-1951 Percentage reduction
	Deaths	Rate	Deaths	Rate	Deaths	Rate	1936-1939 1946-1951 Percentage reduction
Respiratory	106	9.14	140	9.59	82	4.37	52.19
Diarrhoea and enteritis	131	11.29	108	7.40	39	2.08	81.58
Other infections	34	2.93	40	2.73	18	0.96	67.23
Congenital malformations	83	7.16	89	6.10	83	4.42	38.27
Premature births	170	14.66	179	12.25	130	6.93	52.73
Injury at birth	21	1.81	33	2.26	47	2.55	+29.02
Other causes	134	11.10	149	9.40	104	5.59	49.07
All causes	679	56.24	738	46.54	503	26.80	52.31