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5
Annual Report, 1914.
To the Chairman and Members of the Harrow Urban
District Council.
Gentlemen,
I have the honour to submit the following Report on
the public health conditions of your district for the year ending
December 31st, 1914.
It is obvious that as I undertook duty so late in the
year as November, my observations for the most part must be
derived directly from the information supplied me.
The form in which the late Medical Officer compiled his
last Report has been preserved in this.
POPULATION.
The population at the middle of the year is estimated at
18,000.
The number of houses and flats was 4,107. Of this
number 3,955 were occupied and 152 unoccupied.
The number of houses occupied was 3,823; unoccupied
131. The number of flats occupied was 284; unoccupied 21.
BIRTH RATE.
The births of 181 boys and 186 girls were registered
during the year, making a total of 367, as compared with 359
in 1913. This gives a birth rate of 20'3 per thousand, as compared
with 19-9 in 1914. Six illegitimate births (2 males and
4 females) belonging to Harrow occurred outside the District;
these added to the 367 births in Harrow give a total of 373
births, and a net birth rate of 20.7.
The average for the previous five years is 21.3. The
birth rate for England and Wales in 1914 was 23.8, and for
the 145 small towns 23.9.