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16a South Street,
Romford.
October 8th, 1926.
To the Chairman and Members of the Romford Rural
District Council.
Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen,
I beg to present my Annual Report for the year 1925
on the Vital Statistics and Sanitary circumstances of the District.
This is the last annual report which will be presented
for the district as it has hitherto been constituted.
Petitions for the granting of Urban powers to the
parishes of Dagenham and Hornchurch respectively having been
drawn up, the Essex County Council ordered enquiries to be held
in the month of May, 1925. As a result each parish was granted
Urban powers as from the 1st April, 1926.
For the year 1925 I have estimated the population of
the whole district as 52,500 and have used this figure for calculating
the birth and death rates.
I desire to acknowledge the courtesy with which my
colleagues on the staff have supplied me with information required
for the compilation of this report, and to render thanks to the
members of the Council for the manner in which they have
received the statements and suggestions which I have put before
them.
ALFRED BALL, m.d., d.p.h.
Medical Officer of Health.