Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Heston and Isleworth]
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EXTRACTS FROM VITAL STATISTICS OF THE YEAR 1928.
Population—
At the Census, 1921 | 46,664 | ||
Registrar-General's Estimate of nett.. | 59,730 (Birth rate) | ||
Civil Population | 58,910 (Death rate) | ||
Births— | Male. | Female. | Total. |
Legitimate | 502 | 478 | 980 |
Illegitimate | 15 | 25 | 40 |
Birth rate (nett) | 17.07 | ||
Deaths— | Male. | Female. | Total. |
338 | 286 | 624 |
Death rate (corrected) 9.86
Number of women dying in, or in
consequence of, childbirth
from sepsis 3
from other causes 2
Deaths of infants under one year of age per 1,000 births—
Legitimate ... 55.1 Illegitimate ... 75
Infantile Mortality Rate 55.88
Deaths from Measles (all ages) 2
„ „ Whooping Cough (all ages) 0
„ „ Diarrhoea (under 2 year of age) 6
Area 6,851. acres
Number of inhabited houses (Census, 1921) 8,790
„ of families or separate occupiers (1921) 9,893
Rateable value £380,831
Sum represented by a penny rate £1,357
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 Parish of Heston and Isleworth during the years 1927-1928 : —
1927. | 1928. | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
£ | s. | d. | £ | s. | d. | |
Parish of Heston ,& Isleworth | 5799 | 3 | 3½ | 4929 | 15 | 8½ |