[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hendon RDC 1919].

  • Hendon (London, England). Rural District Council.
Date:
1920
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Credit: [Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hendon RDC 1919]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ocirl Conditions Geology i ublic Open Births k Birth Jinte ALL UAL HKPu X or the HELICAL GFFICKK OF HSAItTH for the Rural &strict of Hen -on ror the Year 1919, * Arm 11,050 Acres Population , 1911 Consus 14161. istii ; t . ’ i onuLr Lion : For the Birth list© - 17577 For tho te-th hate - 16673 r Chains! n ntl man, I have the }ionour of presenting to you my Annual deport for the year 1919 upon the sanitary condition or your district* iJidi: a GEBDHAL jJCCCiJPnoB OF BlliThlCT I iho -re of th istrict is ll,u55 ncron. It lies upon the southern nnd wo stem slopes of the spur of hi h lend running fro, the Bnrnet District end jut line out in to the or Id of Harrow* the dividiru'; linos of the five parishes run npnroxi t ly north °nd south, th no them portion of th parish. roetin • on the hill and the southern lyin'; in th- valley. The hi host point in the District , 502 feet above ■ ! . , ■ for Hoad at h >rt boundary. The lowest point , Bout 150 foot is do be oun at the south-erst on r of 1 inner lari eh. -ho district is Li tinctly a residential end a ri ult- ural ono, bain ; somewhat heavily tii bore , email acreage of arable land* The Agricultural portion o-'‘ it is laid do n in grass and tho chief sariculturl product is h-v / v i Hunnin ; froi - oat , ri in th following order Dm r.r.ro, Little Gteimoro, ro t ox , Harrow Deald nnd Pinner* j The* i -triot lies upon the groat London clay ; t .1 is enppo 1 or, the Id jior land by patches of r:r vel varying; in defenses* In some pi-cos, notably in th north-e • t of Harrow Weald, the subsoil ws r rises to withii r feel or 1 Jitean ii of the surface of the gravel* | Besides the Strnmoro Jrickct Ground (seven ores), tit anno re Parsh (14 acres), tho Little Common , w- ^cros) , the Pinner Beds (lo acres) , the principal common lands ^re those at Harrow leal I and rreat 31 armor o . The are® of tho former in Md acres, of the latter I2li ci >s* VITAL ST Antilles. Tho Kogistrrr General has again supplied me with tho figures for the estimation of the opulalion for tho birth xxi • f and death rate* The estimated fi-ture for the birth rate is 17577 n) that ~or tho death rato 16 $73 Tho tot~l number of births for the district is 14 o which 14 wore illegitimate . Last year tho tot-1 vr 251,