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Heston and Isleworth 1925

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Heston and Isleworth]

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Table: 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 years 1924—1925:—

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 years 1924—1925:—

1924.1925.
£s.d.£s.d.
Parish of Heston2156101199663
Parish of Isleworth48521584759116¾
£700959£6755179¾

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EXTRACTS FROM VITAL STATISTICS OF THE YEAR 1925.
Population—
At the Census, 1921 46,664
Registrar-General's Estimate of nett 48,620 (Birth rate)
Civil populatio 48,350 (Death rate)
Births— Male. Female. Total.
Legitimate 428 388 816
Illegitimate 20 12 32
Birth rate (nett 17.44
Deaths— Male Female. Total.
267 266 533
Death rate (corrected) 10.26
Number of women dying in, or in from sepsis 3
consequence of, childbirth from other causes 3
Deaths of infants under one year of age per 1,000 births—
Legitimate 71.07 Illegitimate 125
Infantile Mortality Rate 73.11
Deaths from Measles (all ages) 1
„ „ Whooping Cough (all ages) 3
„ „ Diarrhoea (under 2 years of age) 12
Area 6,851 acres.
Number of inhabited houses (Census 1921) 8,790
„ of families or separate occupiers (1921) 9,893
Rateable value £269,344
Sum represented by a penny rate £958