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Willesden 1902
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Willesden]
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HOSPITAL REPORT for 1902.
To the Chairman and Members of the Willesden Urban
District Council.
Gentlemen,
I have the honour to present the Hospital
Report for the year 1902.
The year has been a strenuous one, a greater
number of cases having been admitted to the Hospital
at Dog Lane than in any previous year. In addition
to this the equipment and administration of the
Small-Pox Hospital at Kingsbury has devolved upon
the Hospital staff.
At the same time the work of permanent enlargement
of the Hospital has been proceeding, and this
has necessarily absorbed time and attention.
The greatest difficulties have lain in having to
cope with a volume of work far in excess of what the