[Report 1925] / Medical Officer of Health, County Council of the Palatine of Chester / Cheshire County Council.

  • Cheshire (England). County Council.
Date:
1925
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Credit: [Report 1925] / Medical Officer of Health, County Council of the Palatine of Chester / Cheshire County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    INTRODUCTION. To the Chairman and Members of the Public Health Committee of the Cheshire County Council. Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen, The Report which I have the honour to present to you on this occasion is not merely one for the year 1925 but is what is known as a Survey Report covering the years 1921 to 1925 inclusive. That general activities for the amelioration of the public health have increased even during this short period is well enough known to the members of yonr Committee. In this Report it has been one of my aims to- record concrete facts shewing the actual progress made. In almost every direction advances have been made— to wit in housing, water-supply, sewering and sewage dis- posal, the control of infectious disease, the care of mothers and babies, the control of food supplies and so forth. In running the machinery for the betterment of public health our foot seems to- be on the -accelerator pedal most of the time and it is only rarely that the brakes are applied. No one can say where the halting place is—if indeed there be one this side of Utopia. One has to be content with the knowledge that progress is being made towards the goal of better health, prolonged life and communal content and . prosperity. The principal statistical figures for 1925 shew the following: — A slight fall in the birth-rate: No change in, the general death-rate as compared with 1924: