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THE COUNCIL OF THE BOROUGH OF SOUTHALL, 1946
Members of the Public Health Committee (which also functions as a Maternity and
Child Welfare Committee) are denoted by an asterisk.
HIS WORSHIP THE MAYOR
* ALDERMAN F. E. GARDNER, J.P.
Deputy Mayor :
*Councillor F. J. Marks, J.P.
Aldermen :
*Amos, Mrs. F. S. Hamblin, E. B. Hutchings, C. Neighbour, D. C.
*Smith, F. G. (Chairman of the Public Health Committee)
*Braine, E. W. H.
*Collins, Miss M.
Dane, A. T.
*Douglas, H. C.
Dormer, J. G.
*Hopkins, W. H.
Councillors :
Jennings, F. H.
*Lewis, J. F.
Lake, H. G.
*Lowe, J.
Love, P. J.
Luckett, F. H.
*Lye, A. E.
*Robinson, G. T.
*Syrett, C. R.
*Tooke, Mrs. M. M.
Ward, J. H.
To the Mayor, Aldermen and Councillors of the
Borough of Southall.
MR. MAYOR, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN,
I have the honour to present the 50th Annual Report on the health and sanitary
circumstances of the Borough for the year 1946.
The health of the population continues to be good. The birth rate maintained
its regular increase, excepting 1945, and is comparatively high at 20.51.
The death rate showed a slight decrease, but the most notable feature of the vital
statistics is the very great decrease in the infant mortality rate from 45.9 in 1944 to 33.9 in
1946, and this figure compared very favourably with most districts whether urban or rural.
The low figure for puerperal pyrexia and the absence of maternal deaths is also
satisfactory.
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