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in the previous year, the average weekly number coming in 1943 being
40 as compared with 50 in 1942, and going out 34 as contrasted with
42 for the previous year.
Births.
3,500 live births is the greatest number which have occurred to
women in this district, being a rate per thousand of the estimated population
of —, a rate appreciably higher than any previously recorded for
this district. The average rate in the five years 1935 to 1939 was 17.7,
the range varying from 17.5 to 17.9. In 1940 there was a fall, followed
by a still sharper decline in 1941, but a return in the next year to the
1940 level, the average for these three years being 15.6.
Deaths.
Of the 996 deaths in the district, 88 occurred among non-residents.
As there were 841 inward transfer deaths, the total number of deaths of
residents was 1,749, a figure comparable to that of 1,818 in 1943.
Of the 88 outward transfer deaths, 16 took place at the Orthopaedic
Hospital, 12 at the Harrow and Wealdstone Hospital, 17 in Nursing
Homes and 24 in private houses.
Of the 841 deaths of local residents which occurred outside the area,
most took place in institutions, 382 being at Redhill Hospital, 75 at
Redhill House and 70 (including 5 new-born infants) at other County
Hospitals. Eleven deaths occurred at institutions for the treatment of
tuberculosis and 27 at Shenley Hospital. 88 deaths took place in hospitals
just outside the district and 94 in various London General Hospitals.