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THE COUNCIL OF THE BOROUGH OF SOUTHALL, 1947
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 W. H. HOPKINS, J.P.
Deputy Mayor:
*Councillor A. T. Dane, J.P.
*Gardner, F. E.
Neighbour, D. C.
*Bray, W. D.
cullingworth, F. A.
*Douglas, H. C.
Dormer, J. G.
Jennings, F. H.
*Lewis, J. F.
Aldermen:
Hamblin, E. B.
*Smith, F. G.
Councillors:
Lawn, P. A.
Love, P. J.
*Lye, A. E.
*Marks, F. J. (Chairman,
Public Health Committee)
*Robinson, G. T.
Luckett, F. H.
*Salmon, J.
Shepherd, A. H.
*Tooke, Mrs. M. M.
*Ward, E.
Ward, J. H.
Co-opted for Maternity and Child Welfare Purposes only:
Mrs. D. Bradley and Mrs. C. E. Harley
To the Mayor, Aldermen and Councillors of the
Borough of Southall.
MR. MAYOR, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN,
I have the honour to present the 51st Annual Report on the health and sanitary
circumstances of the Borough for the year 1947. This is the last year in which the report
is likely to be quite in the present form as, with the coming into force of the National Health
Service Act, the Southall Borough Council will no longer be in control of the Maternity and
Child Welfare Services in the Borough. These services will become part of, and be
administered by, a larger area. The Borough's Isolation Hospital will become separated
as a result of its transference to the Regional Hospital Board for administrative purposes.
The health of the population continued to be good; the birth rate was 20.16; the
death rate was 8.67, a decrease from 8 96 in 1946 and 9 26 in 1945. The infant mortality
rate, which had been declining steadily for the previous eight years, showed a slight increase
in 1947 to 388. There was a notable rise in the figures of attendances at clinics and treatment
centres, attendances being particularly heavy at infant welfare clinics, especially at the Manor
House.
During the year, services in connection with school medical inspection and treatment
were maintained in the control of the Public Health Department by agreement between the
Southall Borough Council and the Middlesex County Council.
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