[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for West Ham County Borough 1908].

  • West Ham (London, England). County Borough
Date:
[1909]
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Credit: [Report of the Medical Officer of Health for West Ham County Borough 1908]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PUBLIC HEALTH DEPARTMENT, TOWN HALL, WEST HAM. To the Council of the County Borough of West Ham. ^1r. Mayor and Gentlemen, “ Every Medical Officer of Health appointed under order of the Local Government Board is required 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 chiefl3/ concerned with the conditions affecting health in the district, and with the means for improving those conditions. It should contain an account of the sanitary circumstances of the district, and of any improvement or deterioration which may have occurred during the year in those circumstances.” In accordance with the above requisition, I beg to submit my annual report for the year 1908, 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 t^ear, 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.
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