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Birth Rate.
3,098 births were registered during the year, the birth rate per
1,000 population being, therefore, 17.7. The corresponding figure
for England and Wales was 14.9 and the local figures for the three
preceding years 1936 to 1934 were 17.8, 17.5 and 16.4. A high
birth rate can be anticipated for some years as the recently
erected properties will, on an average, contain a higher than
normal proportion of young adults.

Of the 60 deaths of non-residents occurring in the district,
10 took place at the Orthopaedic Hospital, 10 at the Harrow and
Wealdstone Hospital, one at the Stanmore Cottage Hospital,
18 at local nursing or maternity homes and 20 in private houses.
Of the 598 deaths of local residents which occurred outside the
area most took place in institutions, 278 being at Redhill Hospital,
34 at other county hospitals and 17 at Barnet hospital. 20 deaths
occurred at institutions for the treatment of the tuberculous (11 at
county tuberculosis institutions) and 20 at mental hospitals (17 at
Shenley). 33 deaths occurred in hospitals just outside the district
and 7 at municipal isolation hospitals. 124 deaths took place in
various of the London general and maternity hospitals, including
6 deaths of infants of mothers confined in the hospitals.
Sixty-nine local residents died in the Harrow and Wealdstone
hospital.
1,348 deaths in a population of 174,800 is a death rate of 7.7
compared with local figures of 8.1, 7.7 and 7.7 for the years 1934 to
1936, a figure of 12.4 for England and Wales and one of 12.5 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 figures for the years 1934 to 1936 were 9.5, 9.01 and
The fatalities of the infectious diseases expressed as a rate per
thousand population compare favourably with figures for the
country as a whole. The rates for measles (0.006), diphtheria (0.02)
and influenza (0.29) were all lower than the corresponding national
rates of 0.02, 0.07 and 0.45. Those of whooping cough and scarlet
fever were the same as the national rates of 0.04 and 0.01.