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Public Health Department,
Lambeth Town Hall,
Brixton Hill, S.W.
April, 1914.
To the Mayor, Aldermen and Councillors
of the Metropolitan Borough of Lambeth.
Mr. Mayor and Gentlemen,
In presenting the Annual Report for 1913, dealing with
the Vital Statistics of the Borough of Lambeth, it is again
my privilege to draw your attention to the favourable
character of such Report, the lowness of the various deathrates
(general, zymotic and infantile mortality) shewing the
success of the preventive measures taken and the value
of the sanitary work carried out for years past.
.Standing out for particular attention, during 1913,
is the inauguration of the Lambeth Municipal Tuberculosis
Dispensaries Scheme, with the opening to the Public of
the two Dispensaries—the Central at 73 Effra Road,
Brixton, S.W., and the Branch in connection with St.
Thomas’s Hospital (Out-Patients’ Departments). The
special Report dealing with the work of the Tuberculosis
Medical Officers at these two Dispensaries speaks for
itself, and will be found, fully set out, as an addendum to
this Report (vide Appendix pp. 75 to 103).
Mention may also be made of an outbreak of milk-borne
diphtheria (in Norwood and neighbouring districts),
and the success of the preventive measures taken in connection
therewith. A special Report on the outbreak will
be found in the Appendix (vide pp. 35 to 74).
To the Chief Officers of the Council, and to the Public
Health Staff, my thanks are again due, as also to the
Members of the Council, for assisting me in carrying out
my important duties as Medical Officer of Health, and
Chief Executive Tuberculosis Officer, for the Borough of
Lambeth.
I am, Mr. Mayor and Gentlemen,
Your obedient Servant,
Medical Officer of Health and
Chief Executive Tuberculosis Officer.