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THE COUNCIL OF THE BOROUGH OF SOUTHALL, 1963
THE WORSHIPFUL THE MAYOR
*†fcouncillor E. J. sheil, J.P.
Deputy Mayor:
*Alderman A. T. Dane
Aldermen:
Cavell, Mrs. I., J.P. Douglas, H. C. Hopkins, W. H., J.P.
*Dane, A. T. *Haigh, J., J.P. Love, P. J.
Councillors:
Aspell, T. J. A. Hook, R. E. *†('Southey, P. G.
*Barton, A. J. *Johnston, J. Steele, T. J.
*Berry, W. M. D. *Jones Mrs. E. W. (Chairman) *†fthornton, C. B., Ph.D.
Day, F. R. Lamb, W. G. Ward, E.
Errington, F. G. *Rockhll, F. R. J. *Ward, J. H.
*Griffiths, Mrs. M. C. *fsheil, E. J., J.P. Woodruff, J. A. T., J.P.
* Members of the Public Health Committee
*Members of the 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 73rd Annual Report on the health and circumstances
of the population of the Borough of Southall.
The general standard of health of the population continued to be good.
There was a rise in the Death Rate. Although Cancer was still the biggest individual
cause of death, there were signs of a decrease, and there were fewer deaths from Lung
Cancer than from Cancer of the Alimentary Tract. The figure for Road Accident deaths
showed a disturbing increase, as did that for violent deaths as a whole.
1963 was a bad year for Home Accidents also especially if the number of persons
injured in home accidents rose at the rate of the increase in deaths from this cause.
The Birth Rate has been rising rapidly and was very high in 1963, the highest for 30
years. This combined with a low Infant Mortality Rate is likely to bring problems of
increased overcrowding of homes and schools very soon. It is also distressing to have to
record a significant rise in illegitimate infant births in the last three years and this may link
up to some degree with the number of prematurely born children, the figure for which has
doubled in the last seven years.
There were no large outbreaks of infectious disease or food poisoning. The finishing
of the Sonne Dysentery from the previous year caused a great deal of work in visits and
specimen investigation, and there were the occasional alarms when typhoid or smallpox
suspects entered the district.
Tuberculosis was notified in a larger number of cases. There were three deaths from
this cause, one fewer than in the previous year. The increase in the figure for multiple cases
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