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Heston and Isleworth 1929

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

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EXTRACTS FROM VITAL STATISTICS OF THE YEAR 1929
Population—
At the Census, 1921
46,664
Registrar-General's Estimate of nett
63,070 (Birth rate)
Civil Population
62,240 (Death rate)
Births—
Male
Female
Total
Legitimate
537
501.
1038
Illegitimate
24
16
40
Birth rate (nett)
17.09
Deaths—
Male
Female
Total
402
367
769
Death rate (corrected) 11.5
Number of women dying in, or in
consequence of, childbirth
from sepsis 1
from other causes 0
Deaths of infants under one year of age per 1,000 births-
Legitimate 42.38 Illegitimate 150
Infantile Mortality Rate 46.38
Deaths from Measles (all ages) 1
„ „ Whooping Cough (all ages) 7
„ „ Diarrhoea (under 2 years 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 (at 31/12/29) £483,841
Sum represented by a penny rate during: the vear
1929-30 £1,928
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 1928-29:—
1928.
1929.
£
s.
d.
£
s.
d.
Parish of Heston & Isleworth
4929
15
8½
4373
11
6