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To His Worship the Mayor, the Aldermen, and the Councillors
of the Borough of Hornsey.
Gentlemen,
I beg to submit my Annual Report on the health of the
Borough of Hornsey for the year 1914.
The vital statistics as a whole are again very satisfactory,
the death-rate being almost the lowest on record. The same
remark applies to the infantile mortality, and the other vital
statistics are of a similarly favourable character.
Towards the end of the year considerable re-organization
of the work of the Department was necessitated owing to a large
proportion of the Staff having joined His Majesty's Forces, and
in some respects part of the work usually carried on had to be
curtailed.
Arrangements have now been made to, as far as possible,
temporarily fill up the vacancies so caused, and the work of the
Public Health Department is now being carried on without serious
interruption.
I am, Gentlemen,
Your obedient Servant,
HAROLD COATES, M.D., D.P.H.