[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Harrow] page 107

Harrow 1958

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Harrow]

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Years	1934	1939	1944	1949	1954	1955	1956	1957	1958
Population	132,049	190,200	185,090	220,300	217,700	217,100	216,200	215.000	214.300
Houses and flats	38,024	56,500	57,736	60,859	62,987	63,572	64,060	63,912	64.083
Births	2,267	2,523	3,473	3,083	2,747	2,755	2,791	2,783	2,830
Birth rate	16.4	17.5	18.7	13.9	12.6	12.7	12.9	12.9	13.2
Stillbirths	71	107	121	66	56	50	58	61	47
Per 1,000 total births	31.7	31.3	33.6	20.9	20.0	17.8	20.4	21.9	16.3
Deaths	1,076	1,408	1,732	1,890	1,790	1,945	1,903	1,937	1,992
Death rate	8.1	7.4	9.3	8.5	8.2	8.9	8.8	90	9.3
Infant deaths	101	128	121	64	46	47	59	39	48
Infant mortality	47.0	38.5	34.8	20.7	16.7	17.6	21.1	14.0	17.0
Diarrhoea under two	12	12	12	2	10	5	7	6	-
Maternal deaths	13	8	2	5	2	1	2	1	2
Mortality rate	5.80	2.33	1.56	1.60	0.7	0.35	0.7	0.3	0.7
Cancer	156	240	320	344	361	403	420	415	414
Suicide	23	14	17	14	21	22	35	24	18
Violence	35	57	103	53	57	39	48	52	51
Scarlet Fever— Notifications	621	317	387	351	209	125	128	76	134
Diphtheria— Notifications	80	54	16	1	-	-	-	-	-
Measles. Notifications	-	3	573	2,038	41	3.124	610	1.783	1,336
Deaths	12	-_	1	-_	-_	-_	-	-	-
Whooping Cough— Notifications	-	8	682	191	211	246	88	256	40
Deaths	3	3	3	2	-_	-	-	-	-
Tuberculosis— Notifications	163	210	289	439	278	287	264	214	118
Deaths	77	78	97	57	32	14	16	14	8
Erysipelas	32	46	47	26	20	19	14	14	15
Puerperal pyrexia	21	19	18	5	16	1	1	1	14
Poliomyelitis	-_	6		23	6	43	14	29	3
Deaths					1	4
Ophthalmia neonatorum .	5	4	1	1	3	-	1	-	-
Cerebrospinal fever	1	4	7	1	3	1	5	6	1
Enteric Fever	7	7	4	2	2	8	2	2	-
Dysentery	1	4	13	11	14	30	17	17	58
Food poisoning	-	—	5	4	37	57	77	65	44