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THE COUNCIL OF THE BOROUGH OF SOUTHALL, 1949
Members of the Public Health Committee are denoted by an asterisk.
HIS WORSHIP THE MAYOR
*ALDERMAN E. B. HAMBLIN, J.P.
Deputy Mayor:
Councillor A. E. Lye.
Aldermen:
*Gardner, P. E.
Hamblin, E. B.
Hopkins, W. H.
*Lowe, J.
Luckett, F. H.
Smith, F. G.
Councillors:
Bray, W. D.
*Cavell, Mrs. I.
*Cooper, Mrs. M.
Culling worth, F. A.
Dane, A. T.
*Dormer, J. G. P.
*Douglas, H. C.
Haigh, J.
Lockyer, G. F.
Lye, A. E.
*Marks, F. J. (Chairman
Public Health Committee)
Salmon, J.
*Shepherd, A. H
Steele, T. J.
*Taylor, F. K.
*Walker, F. C.
*Ward, E.
Ward, J. H.
To the Mayor, Aldermen and Councillors of the
Borough of Southall.
MR. MAYOR, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN,
1 have the honour to present the 53rd Annual Report on the health and
sanitary circumstances of the Borough for the year 1949.
The health of the population continued to be good. The birth rate was 15.72,
a reduction from 18.14 in 1948. This reduction was general throughout the
country, but the birth rate for Southall was slightly lower than the birth rate for
England and Wales which was 16.7.
The death rate was 9.43. This had been decreasing steadily since 1945, but
it rose in 1949, the corresponding rate in the year 1948 being 8.28. There was
an increase in the number of deaths from heart disease and from cancer. A
matter for satisfaction on the list of statistics of causes of death, was the
reduction in deaths from suicide and other violence, and the absence of any
deaths from road traffic accidents for the first time since 1943.
The infant mortality rate rose from 29.1 in 1948, which was the lowest on
record in the Borough, to 40.18 in 1949. Of the 35 deaths, twenty-seven took place
during the first four weeks after birth and of these, twenty-five occurred
following hospital confinement, one after confinement in a nursing home, and
the other death was that of an unidentified infant found in the canal. No
neo-natal deaths took place after confinement at home.
There was a slight increase in the number of deaths from tuberculosis; 24
deaths were recorded as compared with 22 in 1948. The number of notifications
of new patients suffering from this disease was 126 as compared with 127 in
1948.
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