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Southall Municipal Sports Ground 20 acres
Jubilee Park 11.13 acres
Durdans Park 29.5 acres
Viaduct Field 4.22 acres
Swimming Bath Site 10.5 acres
West Middlesex Golf Course 108 acres
For general administrative purposes and for the main statistical purposes of
this report, the district is divided into six wards with boundaries as detailed in
previous annual reports.
The majority of the houses in the district are occupied by good-class working
people, chiefly engaged in the local lactories and workshops. These include food,
jam and chemical works, engineering, hosiery, paint, dye, and wood works,
laundries, etc. There are no trades carried on which are at present scheduled as
offensive trades.
BIRTH AND DEATH RATES
Whole Distric t
Total deaths, 531. (Males, 271; Females, 260.)
Crude Death Rate, 9.43.
For extracts from vital statistics and causes of deaths, sec Appendix, Tables I
and II.
Deaths.
The death rate which has been decreasing over the last few years rose from
8.28 in 1948 to 9.43 in 1949. The corresponding rate for the whole country was 11.7.
Heart disease and cancer were again the principal causes of death and both showed
a considerable increase on the 1948 figures. Although the incidence of poliomyelitis
and polioencephalitis was comparatively low in the district, there were two deaths
from polioencephalitis. One was a schoolboy aged 16, who had taken part in school
sports shortly before his illness, but the other case, a young married man, had no
history of strenuous exercise or other ascertainable reason why the attack should
have been so virulent. It is pleasing to note that during the year there were no
deaths from road accidents in the Borough.
The total number of deaths registered during 1949, of persons belonging to the
district and dying within the district, at all ages and from all causes, was 276
(males 125 and females 151). For statistical purposes it is necessary to add to this
figure the deaths of persons ordinarily resident in the district who died in various
London Hospitals, the Hillingdon County Hospital, other Middlesex County
Hospitals and elsewhere outside the district. These "outside" deaths were 255 in
number (males 146 and females 109). The total number of deaths, therefore,
belonging to the district was 531.
The deaths of non-Southall residents in the St. Bernard's Hospital (not included
in the above figures) numbered 151 (male 51 and females 100.)
For the distribution of deaths in the various Wards, see Appendix, Table III,
and for the comparison of general birth and death rates and rates of maternal
mortality, see Appendix, Table IV.
Births and Birth Rate. (Figures for 1948 are given in brackets.)
The total number of registered births in the district (as notified under the
Births and Deaths Registration Act) was 364 (351). The total number of live births
belonging to the district, whether occurring within or outside the district was 871
906). The illegitimate live births were 39 (53). There were 14 stillbirths (23) and
these were all legitimate.
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