Report on the sanitary condition of the Metropolitan Borough of Hackney for the year 1918.

  • Hackney (London, England). Metropolitan Borough.
Date:
1919
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Credit: Report on the sanitary condition of the Metropolitan Borough of Hackney for the year 1918. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Metropolitan Borough of Hackney. REPORT OF THE MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH FOR THE YEAR 1918. THE PUBLIC HEALTH DEPARTMENT, Town Hall, Hackney, E.8. To the Mayor, Aldermen and Councillors of the Metropolitan Borough of Hackney. Madam and Gentlemen, I have pleasure in submitting to you my Annual Report upon the Health of the Borough of Hackney for the year 1918. During the whole of the year in question the late Dr. John King Warry held office; and he continued to do so until his sudden and much regretted death on March 9th, 1919. In accordance with the wish of the Local Government Board, expressed year by year during the latter part of the Great War, Dr. King Warry's Annual Reports had been very considerably abridged during that period, mainly on account of the great cost of paper and printing. The desire for brevity has been expressed again by the Local Government Board with respect to the Annual Report for 1918. For this reason I have endeavoured to be as brief as possible consistently with the importance of the facts dealt with ; and, as a tribute to the memory of Dr. King Warry, and because the year was really one of his years, I have adopted the form of report produced by him during his last years of office, thus completing in his own way the long series of reports written by him during his twenty.six years of service as Medical Officer of Health.