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Harrow 1945
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Harrow]
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STATISTICS AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS
OF THE AREA.
Area (in acres) 12,558
Registrar-General's estimate of resident population, midyear,
1945 191,710
Rateable Value (April 1st, 1946) £2,125,236
Sum represented by a penny rate (April 1st, 1946) £8,550
| Live Births | Total | Male | Female | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Legitimate | 2,889 | 1,496 | 1,393 | Birth rate per 1,000 of the estimated resident population, 16.0 | |||
| Illegitimate | 179 | 103 | 76 | ||||
| Total | 3,068 | 1,599 | 1,469 | ||||
| Stillbirths:— | |||||||
| Legitimate | 88 | 50 | 38 | Rate per 1,000 total (live and still) births, 2.9 | |||
| Illegitimate | 4 | 3 | 1 | ||||
| Total | 92 | 53 | 39 | ||||
| Deaths | 1,732 | 877 | 855 : | Death rate per 1,000 of the estimated resident population, 9.0 | |||
| Deaths from puerperal causes:— | Deaths | Rate per 1,000 total (live and still) births | |||||
| Puerperal sepsis | 1 | 0.31 | |||||
| Other puerperal causes | 3 | 0.95 | |||||
| Total | 4 | 1.26 | |||||
| Death rate of Infants under one year of age:— | |||||||
| All infants per 1,000 live births | 32.2 | ||||||
| Legitimate infants per 1,000 legitimate live births | 32.2 | ||||||
| Illegitimate infants per 1,000 illegitimate live births | 39.1 | ||||||
| Deaths from Cancer (all ages) | 324 | ||||||
| Measles (all ages) | 2 | ||||||
| Whooping Cough (all ages) | 2 | ||||||
| Diarrhoea (under 2 years of age) | 9 | ||||||
Population.
The Registrar-General's estimate of the mid-year population in 1934
was 132,049. It was calculated that the number of inhabited houses was
35,805, the number of persons per house being therefore 3.68.
From 1934 to 1939, the population figure rose, though at a diminishing
rate. This increase was largely the result of the occupation of the newly
erected dwellings, though was partly due to the natural increase in the
population. By this is meant the excess of births over deaths in any