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Wealdstone 1914
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wealdstone]
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WEA 13
WEALDSTONE URBAN DISTRICT
Annual Report, 1914.
20th April, 1915.
To the Chairman and Members of the Wealdstone Urban
District Council.
Gentlemen,
I have the honour to present my twentieth Annual
Report upon the sanitary condition of the Urban District
of Wealdstone for the year ending December 31st, 1914.
POPULATION.
The estimated population is 13,050. The number
of houses and flats 2685. Of this number 2610 were
occupied, 70 unoccupied, and 5 in course of erection.
BIRTHS.
The total number of births belonging to the district
was 340, affording a birth-rate of 26.05 per 1000 of population,
this being a slight increase on that of 1913. The
average rate for the past 10 years is 28, and that for
England and Wales for the year 1914, 23.77.