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Of the 72 deaths of non-residents occurring in the district
eight took place at the Orthopaedic Hospital, six at the Harrow
and Wealdstone Hospital, 31 in various local nursing and maternity
homes (of which three were new-born infants), and twenty-five in
private houses.
Of the 520 deaths of local residents which occurred outside
this area, most took place in institutions, 208 being at Redhill
Hospital and 53 at other county general hospitals. 18 deaths
occurred at institutions for the treatment of the tuberculous (nine
in County Tuberculosis Institutions) and 19 at mental hospitals
(17 at Shenley). 33 deaths occurred in hospitals just outside the
district, most of them being at the general hospitals in Northwood,
Wembley, Willesden and Hampstead. 120 deaths took place at
various of the London general and maternity hospitals, including
11 deaths of infants of mothers confined in the hospitals. Two
deaths occurred in outside municipal isolation hospitals.
Sixty-eight local residents died in the Harrow and Wealdstone
Hospital.
1,240 deaths in a population of 160,300 represents the death
rate of 7.7 compared with local figures of 8.1 and 7.7 for the years
1934 and 1935, a figure of 12.1 for England and Wales and one of
12.3 for the Great Towns.
The corrected death rate, obtained by the application of the
areal comparability factor of 1.17, is 9.01. The corresponding
figure was 9.01 in 1935 and 9.5 for 1934.
The fatalities of the infectious diseases expressed as a rate per
thousand population compare favourably with the figures for the
country as a whole. There were no deaths from scarlet fever, while
the rates for measles (0.03), whooping cough (0.026), diphtheria
(0.02), and influenza (0.06) were all lower than the corresponding
national rates of 0.07, 0.05, 0.07, and 0.14.
Deaths from tuberculosis, both pulmonary and non-pulmonary
forms, showed a slight increase over the figures for the previous
year. The rate per 100,000 population of 53.6, however, is well
below the figure of 71.8 recorded for the country as a whole in 1935.
The infant mortality rate is again relatively low, being only
44.9 compared with the figure of 59 for England and Wales and
63 for the Great Towns. The local figure for last year was 42.1 and
for 1934, 47. This rise over the previous year's figure was due to
a number of deaths in the latter part of the year from influenza.
The maternal mortality rate was 4.02 compared with local
figures of 3.46 for 1935 and 5.99 for 1934, and a figure of 3.81 for
England and Wales.