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Harrow 1953

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Harrow]

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Years	1934	1935	1936	1937	1938	1939	1940	1941	1942	1943	1944	1945	1946	1947	1948	1949	1950	1951	1952	1953
Population	132049	144280	160300	174800	183500	190200	188710	195480	195100	191660	185090	191710	210890	215930	218700	220300	222300	220000	219000	217900
Houses and flats	38024	41265	46325	52681	54460	56500	58230	58362	58103	58220	—	—	58984	58660	59670	60859	61173	61532	62111	62520
Births	2267	2523	2873	3098	3292	3321	3011	2751	3268	3500	3473	3068	3934	3828	3226	3083	2848	2895	2855	2721
Birth rate	16.4	17.5	17.8	17.7	17.9	17.5	16.7	14.7	16.6	18.2	18.7	160	180	17.7	14.7	13.9	12.8	131	13.1	12.5
Stillbirths	71	79	106	95	106	107	84	79	81	101	121	92	122	91	69	66	63	77	53	71
Per 1,000 total births	31.7	31.5	35.3	29.1	31.2	31.3	27.2	27.8	24.1	28.0	33.6	29.1	30.0	23.2	20.9	20.9	21.6	23.9	18.2	25.4
Deaths	1076	1108	1240	1348	1311	1408	1725	1774	1818	1749	1732	1732	1816	1834	1837	1890	1999	2094	1920	1925
Death rate	81	7.7	7.7	7.7	7.1	7.4	9.1	9.1	9.3	9.1	9.3	9.0	8.6	8.5	8.4	8.5	8.9	9.5	8.7	8.8
Infant deaths	102	108	129	110	126	128	150	151	103	133	121	100	129	92	93	64	39	62	62	46
Infant mortality	470	42.1	44.9	35.5	38.3	38.5	50.0	55.6	31.5	38.0	34.8	32.2	31.0	240	28.8	20.7	13.6	22.1	21.7	16.9
Diarrhæa	12	12	13	5	25	12	21	28	8	20	12	9	9	6	9	2	1	3	3	2
Maternal deaths	13	9	12	13	12	8	2	9	5	9	2	4	3	4	2	5	4	3	4	1
Mortality rate	5.80	3.46	4.02	4.07	3.52	2.33	0.62	3.18	1.50	2.57	0.56	1.26	0.75	1.00	0.60	1.60	1.30	100	1.30	0.30
Cancer	156	145	170	226	212	240	254	288	301	278	320	324	350	333	359	344	422	389	386	362
Suicide	23	20	17	18	25	14	11	12	10	12	17	14	13	19	15	14	21	18	24	14
Violence	—	35	46	55	37	57	126	79	67	45	103	61	45	53	45	53	45	45	95	40
Scarlet Fever-Notifications	621	501	423	416	500	317	217	331	630	707	387	278	265	179	181	351	255	181	246	212
Deaths	9	3	0	2	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0
Diphtheria—Notifications	80	85	30	95	63	54	78	39	51	40	16	29	17	6	0	1	1	0	0	0
Deaths	8	2	0	4	8	9	3	0	3	1	2	4	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Measles—Notifications	—	—	—	—	—	3	2285	1275	2509	1516	573	2184	1605	1252	1181	2038	1005	2548	1417	2462
Deaths	12	0	5	1	2	0	4	2	2	1	1	2	2	1	1	0	3	1	0	1
Whooping Cough—
Notifications	—	—	—	—	—	8	296	1259	468	393	682	220	441	521	626	191	772	780	424	494
Deaths	3	5	4	7	2	3	1	8	2	3	3	2	0	4	4	2	0	2	1	0
Tuberculosis—Notifications	163	180	190	212	231	210	226	349	318	261	289	261	308	342	383	439	370	358	271	357
Deaths	77	72	86	89	96	78	93	120	109	107	97	78	90	76	91	57	40	48	38	30
Erysipelas	32	38	31	32	47	46	37	40	48	52	47	37	35	38	29	26	22	25	29	28
Puerperal pyrexia	21	23	26	34	34	19	9	9	23	18	18	22	20	17	6	5	6	13	8	13
Poliomyelitis	0	1	5	4	6	6	0	4	4	0	1	3	5	57	14	23	30	8	18	18
Ophthalmia neonatorum	5	9	6	14	9	4	5	7	5	2	1	5	2	3	0	1	0	2	0	1
Cerebrospinal fever	1	2	1	7	4	4	37	24	15	17	7	9	11	13	3	1	9	5	5	4
Enteric fever	7	5	5	2	2	7	2	18	2	4	4	4	4	21	2	2	5	6	5	3
Dysentery	1	3	3	24	12	4	2	11	21	15	13	38	32	7	10	11	5	45	12	8
Food poisoning	—	—	—	—	—	—	0	4	¹	1	5	1	0	0	0	4	5	4	4	8