[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Southall].
- Southall (London, England). Borough Council.
- Date:
- [1963?]
Licence: Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0)
Credit: [Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Southall]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![THE COUNCIL OF THE BOROUGH OF SOUTHALL, 1962 THE WORSHIPFUL THE MAYOR *Alderman W. H. Hopkins, J.P. Deputy Mayor: *†Councillor E. J. Sheil Aldermen: Cavell, Mrs. I., J.P. *Dane, A. T. Douglas, H. C. *Haigh, J., J.P. *Hopkins, W. H., J.P. Love, P. J. Councillors: *Aspell, T. J. A. Barrett, J., J.P. *Barton, A. J. Day, F. R. Errington, F. G. *Griffiths, Mrs. M. C. Hook, R. E. *†JoNES, Mrs. E. W. (Chairman] *Lamb, W. G. *Rockhill, F. R. J. *fsheil, E. J. †SOUTHEY, P. G. Steele, T. J. Ward, E. *Ward, J. H. Williams, Mrs. V. G. I. *Woodruff, J. A. T. *Members of the Public Health Committee †Members of the Area Health Committee (Area No. 9) To the Mayor, Aldermen and Councillors of the Borough of Southall. MR. MAYOR, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, I have the honour to present the 72nd Annual Report on the health and circumstances of the population of the Borough of Southall. During the year, the general standard of health of the population was reasonably good. The Death Rate and the Infant Mortality Rate were slightly lower, the Birth Rate rose very high. Infectious Disease figures were low for everything except dysentery, an outbreak of which resulted from the case of a woman who discharged herself from hospital in an infectious state, infected her own family, who in turn infected the children in an infant school. The disease was contained locally, except for a few individual cases, but much work and supervision to achieve this had to be carried out by the school staff and the staff of the Department. The amount of Tuberculosis discovered in the year was lower but four persons died of this disease, which accounted for only one death in 1961. Welfare provisions continued to increase, more Meals on Wheels were delivered to a larger number of the elderly housebound, more Chiropody facilities became available, a scheme for a second Work Centre for the Elderly got under way, the numbers of persons undertaking voluntary work with the social clubs was growing, and the number of members of these clubs was rising steadily. Work on the conversion of Southall into a smokeless town was considerable during the year; the programme was speeded up following a request from the Minister of Health for all black areas to endeavour to become completely smoke-free as quickly as possible. Houses in Multiple Occupation increased during 1962, and a great deal of inspectors' 1](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b19878096_0005.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
