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Harrow 1950
[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, mid-year
1950 222,300
Rateable Value (April 1st, 1950) £2,203,047
Sum represented by a penny rate (April 1st, 1950) £8,736
Total number of occupied houses 53,391
Total number of occupied flats 7,782
Extracts from Vital Statistics for the Year.
| Live Births:— | Total | Male | Female | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Legitimate | 2,756 | 1,429 | 1,327 | Birth rate per 1,000 population, 12.8 | ||
| Illegitimate | 92 | 50 | 42 | |||
| Total | 2,848 | 1,479 | 1,369 | |||
| Stillbirths:— | ||||||
| Legitimate | 62 | 30 | 32 | Rate per 1,000 total births, 2.1. | ||
| Illegitimate | 1 | 1 | — | |||
| Total | 63 | 31 | 32 | |||
| Deaths | 1,999 | 982 | 1,017 | Death rate per 1,000 population, 8.9 Rate per 1,000 | ||
| Deaths from pregnancy, childbirth | Deaths 4 | total births 1.3 | ||||
| Death rate of Infants under one year of age:— | ||||||
| All infants per 1,000 live births | 13.6 | |||||
| Legitimate infants per 1,000 legitimate live births | 13.4 | |||||
| Illegitimate infants per 1,000 illegitimate live births | 21.7 | |||||
| Deaths from Cancer | 422 | |||||
| „ ,, Measles | 3 | |||||
| „ Whooping cough | 0 | |||||
| ,, ,, Tuberculosis | 40 | |||||
Population.
The mid-year population of the district was 222,300, an increase of
1,900 on the mid-year population for 1949. The natural increase in
population, i.e., the excess of births over deaths during the year, was
849.
Some indication of the extent to which movements of the population
are taking place is obtained from the information of the length of residence
of those who were notified as suffering from scarlet fever. Of 192 persons
who were notified in 1950 as suffering from this complaint, 6 had lived in
their then homes for less than one year, 5 for over 1 but under 2,
16 between 2 and 3 years, 13 between 3 and 4, 13 between 4 and 5, 8 for
5 years, and 12 for over 5, a total of 73. The remaining 119 had lived in
the houses they were in all their lives. Of this portion of the population
then, roughly one-third had changed their homes in recent years, the