[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for West Ham].

  • West Ham (London, England). County Borough.
Date:
[1911?]
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    PUBLIC HEALTH DEPARTMENT, TOWN HALL, WEST HAM. To the Council of the County Borough of West Ham. Mr. Mayor and Gentlemen, Every Medical Officer of Health appointed under the Public Health Act is required by order of the Local Government Board to make an annual report with regard to the sanitary district which is under his superintendence. The report is to be for the year ending 31st December. It should be chiefly concerned with the conditions affecting health in the district, and of any improvement or deterioration which may have occurred during the year in those circumstances. In accordance with the above requirement, I beg to submit my annual report for the year 1910, and in doing so, desire to point out that such report must necessarily consist very largely of a summary of my periodical reports and other matters which have been under discussion by the Council during the year, and which, therefore, are more or less within the immediate recollection of the members, The collated returns, however, and the statement of local circumstances which may appear superfluous to members fully conversant with them, serve not only as valuable statistical records for future reference, but are needed by the Local Government Board and other authorities, to whom the Medical Officer of Health is required to forward copies. I am, Mr. Mayor and Gentlemen, Your obedient Servant, CHARLES SANDERS, Medical Officer of Health. a 2