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PUBLIC HEALTH REPORT
For 1902.
To the Chairman and Members of the Willesden Urban
District Council.
Gentlemen,
I beg leave to present, on behalf of the
Medical Officer of Health, the Annual Report of the
Public Health Department for the year 1902.
The regretable illness of Dr. Skinner, unfortunately,
prevents him from reviewing the work of
his department, and presenting to you the results of
his investigations into the conditions affecting health
as they exist in Willesden. Dr. Skinner alone has
been in complete touch with the work during the
greater part of the year, and it is, therefore, impossible
for me to do justice to work the magnitude of which
I can appreciate, but with which my acquaintanceship
has been intimate during only a fractional part of the
year. But for the excellent records kept by Dr.
Skinner, it would have been impossible to have
maintained the continuity of his Reports. His absence
is a loss regretted by all, and the universal sympathy
with him in his illness is an assurance of the warm
and kindly feelings in which he is everywhere held.