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THE COUNCIL OF THE BOROUGH OF SOUTHALL, 1948
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
*COUNCILLOR A. T. DANE, J.P.
Deputy Mayor:
Alderman E. B. Hamblin.
*Gardner, F. E.
Hopkins, W. H., J.P.
Bray, W. D.
*Cooper, Mrs. M.
*CULLINGWORTH, F. A.
*Douglas, H. C.
*Dormer, J. G.
Jennings, F. H.
Aldermen:
Luckett, F. H.
Neighbour, D. C.
Councillors:
*Lawn, P. A.
Lockyer, G. F.
Love, P. J.
Lye, A. E.
*Marks, F. J. (Chairman,
Public Health Committee)
*Smith, F. G.
*Salmon, J.
Shepherd, A. H.
*Taylor, F. K.
*Walker, F. C.
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 52nd Annual Report on the health and sanitary
circumstances of the Borough for the year 1948.
On 5th July, 1948, Middlesex County Council took over the management of the
Maternity and Child Welfare Service previously administered by Southall Borough Council.
This report, therefore, will contain statistics for the environmental health and sanitary
circumstances of the population of the Borough for the full year, along with details of
Maternity and Child Welfare work for the period 1st January, 1948, to 4th July, 1948.
The Borough Isolation Hospital continued to admit cases of infectious diseases until
4th July, 1948, but all cases were not discharged from the Hospital until early August.
Subsequently the North-West Metropolitan Regional Hospital Board, to whom the Hospital
was transferred, converted it for the purpose of accommodating male patients suffering
from tuberculosis, and cases of other infectious diseases occurring in Southall and notified
subsequent to 4th July were admitted to hospitals in other areas.
The health of the population continued to be good. The birth rate was 1774, a
reduction from 2016 in 1947. This reduction was general throughout the country, but
the birth rate of Southall was slightly lower than the general birth rate in England and
Wales, which was 17.9.
The death rate was 8.28. This has decreased steadily since 1945, the corresponding
rate in that year being 9 26, in 1946 8 96 and 1947 8 67. The principal causes of death
were again cancer and heart disease.
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