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THE COUNCIL OF THE BOROUGH OF SOUTHALL, 1950
HIS WORSHIP THE MAYOR
*COUNCILLOR A. E. LYE, J.P.
Deputy Mayor:
Alderman F. G. Smith.
Aldermen:
†*gardner, F. E.
Hamblin, E. B.
*Hopkins, W. H.
Lowe, J.
Luckett, F. H.
Smith, F. G.
Councillors:
†*Cavell, Mrs. I.
(Chairman, Health
Committee.)
cullingworth, F. A.
Dane, A. T.
*Dormer, J. G. P.
Douglas, H. C.
*Errington, F. G.
Haigh, J.
Lockyer, G. P.
*Love, P. J.
Lye, A. E.
Marks, F. J.
*Salmon, J.
*Shepherd, A. H.
Steele, T. J.
*Walker, F. C.
Ward, J. H.
White, H. J.
*Williams, Mrs. V. G. I.
*Members of the Health Committee.
†Members of Area Health Committee (Area No. 9).
To the Mayor, Aldermen and Councillors of the
Borough of Southall.
MR. MAYOR, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN,
I have the honour to present the 54th Annual Report on the health and circumstances
of the population of the Borough of Southall for the year 1950.
The health of the people continued to be good. The birth rate fell again during 1950
to 13.34. It was 15.72 in 1949 and has been falling steadily since 1946. The comparative
figure for England and Wales was 15.8.
The death rate fell from 9 43 in 1949 to 8.52 in 1950, and this rate also has been
decreasing annually since 1945. A new international system of classification of causes of
death was brought into operation in 1950, in order that there should be much more accurately
comparable statistics not only throughout the world but in this country by encouraging
very precise definition of the ultimate cause of mortality in each individual case.
There was an increase in the number of deaths from heart disease, but a slight drop in
the number of deaths from cancer, the figure for which had been rising since 1947.
The infant mortality rate dropped from 40.18 in 1949 to 25.41 in 1950. This is the
lowest infant mortality rate ever recorded in the Borough. Of the 20 infant deaths, twelve
took place during the first four weeks after birth and these all occurred following hospital
confinement. Six of the infants dying before the age of one month were classified as
premature, 3 actually being recorded in the deaths register as dying from prematurity.
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