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Heston and Isleworth 1921
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Heston and Isleworth]
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SUMMARY OF VITAL STATISTICS, 1921.
Population—
At tha Census, 1921 46,729
Registrar-General's estimate of nett 47,290 (Birth rate)
Civil Population 45,932(Death rate)
Birth rate (nett) 20.0
England and Wales 22.4
London 22.3
Death rate (nett) 11.28
England and Wales 12.1
London 12.4
Infantile Mortality Rate 69.4 per 1,000 births.
England and Wales 83 „ ,,
London 80 ,, „
Area 6,893 acres.
Number of inhabited houses 9,097
„ of families or separate occupiers Not known.
Rateable value £215,983
Sum represented by a penny rate £851
Poor Law Relief.
I am indebted to Mr. F. E. Harmsworth, Clerk to the Brentford
Guardians, for information respecting the amounts paid in money
and kind as out-relief to poor persons within the parishes of
Heston and Isleworth during the year 1921 :—
£ s. d.
Parish of Heston 1493 0 11
Parish of Isleworth 3891 17 8
£5384 18 7