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WIM031
Borough of Wimblebon.
SANITARY DEPARTMENT.
Annual Report
of the
Medical Officer of Health
for the
Year ended 31st December, 1908.
To the Mayor, Aldermen, and Councillors
of the Borough of Wimbledon.
Gentlemen,
It is with great pleasure that I lay before you my thirtyeighth
Annual Report as Medical Officer of Health of the
Borough, for the year ending December 31st, 1908.
It is most gratifying to state that we have a death-rate
as low as 8.3, and that this is, with one exception, viz., 1905,
when it was 8.2, below that of any year recorded. Bearing
in mind the altered condition of the district since my
appointment as Medical Officer, from a village on the hill to
a town of over 50,000 inhabitants, we may look upon the
past year as a record one.
The Zymotic death-rate (.55) is also the lowest, except
on one occasion, and, in judging the healthiness of a district,