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Minor ailments treatment
Orthopaedic treatment Physiotherapy North Road School Clinic.
Featherstone Road School Clinic.
Ultra Violet Light treatment
Speech therapy North Road and Featherstone Road School Clinics Talbot Road school
County Council of Middlesex—Children's Department
The County Council through the Children's Department is also concerned in caring
for children deprived of a normal home life. Area Children's Officers have been appointed
to deal locally with such cases as they arise.
VITAL STATISTICS
Whole District
Total deaths, 551. (Males 289 ; Females, 262).
Crude Death Rate, 9 91.
For extracts from vital statistics and causes of death, see Appendix, Tables I and II.
Deaths and Death Rate
The death rate, which has been decreasing over the last few years, showed an increase
from 8.52 in 1950 to 9.91 in 1951. The corresponding rate for the whole country was 12.5.
Heart disease and cancer were again the principal causes of death. The numbers dying from
heart diseases and diseases of the circulation increased from 214 to 226, and there was a
slight rise in the number of deaths from cancer since the previous year. There were no
deaths from poliomyelitis.
The total number of deaths registered during 1951 of persons belonging to the district
and dying within the district, at all ages and from all causes was 308 (males 145 and females
163). For statistical purposes it is necessary to add to this figure the deaths of persons
ordinarily resident in the district who died in Hillingdon Hospital, other Middlesex
hospitals and hospitals outside the County boundaries, including various London hospitals.
These " outside " deaths were 243 in number (males 144 and females 99). The total number
of deaths, therefore, belonging to the district was 551.
The deaths of Non-Southall residents but dying within the Borough (not included in
the above figures) number as follows: St. Bernard's Hospital, 168 (males 58 and females 110);
at Mount Pleasant Hospital, 12 (all male); Southall-Norwood Hospital, 4 (1 male and 3
female) ; Norwood Hall, 12 (all female); Vine House, 5 (all female); at private addresses,
8 (4 male and 4 female).
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.
Graph B shows the trend of the death rate since 1946.
Births and Birth Rate. (Figures for 1950 are given in brackets.)
The total number of registered births in the district (as notified under the Births and
Deaths Registration Act) was 150 (178). The total number of live births belonging to the
district, whether occurring within or outside the district was 706 (787). The illegitimate
live births were 28 (36). There were 18 stillbirths (12) and these were all legitimate.
The birth rate for Southall continues to fall. It has decreased every year since 1946,
and was 12.69 for 1951, compared with 14.19 in 1950. The corresponding rate for the whole
of England and Wales in 1951 was 15.5.
Graph B shows the trend of the birth rate since 1946.
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