[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Uxbridge UDC 1948].

  • Uxbridge (London, England). Urban District Council.
Date:
[1949]
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    Annual Report OF THE MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH 1948 Public Health Department, 259, High Street, Uxbridge. July, 1949. TO THE CHAIRMAN AND MEMBERS OF THE UXBRIDGE URBAN DISTRICT COUNCIL. Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen, The year 1948, the subject of this Annual Report, was barely •concluded when the death occurred on 12th January last of Dr. W. Townsend Dobson, the Council’s Medical Officer of Health. Dr. Dobson had held the part-time appointment of Medical Officer of Health since the year 1918, firstly to the Uxbridge Rural District Council and, following the amalgamation in 1929, to the Uxbridge Urban District Council. A comparison between the statistics in his first report to the Urban Authority and those for the year 1948 is of interest. Whereas in 1929 the population of the District was 26,275, that for 1948 is 52,460, while the number of inhabited dwellings has in¬ creased from 6,431 to 13,704. During this period the Birth Rate has decreased from 19-9 to 18-5 per 1,000 of the population and the Death Rate from 1T9 to 8-7 per 1,000 fo^ the year now under review. With regard to diphtheria, during the last two years no notifications of this disease have been received, while 48 cases were notified in 1929, when the population was one-half that for 1948. It remains for me to make a factual presentation of the medical statistics for 1948, and to submit my report on the sanitary adminis¬ tration of the area. I am, Your obedient servant, V. E. Baughan, Chief Sanitary Inspector.