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REPORT
of the
MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH
FOR THE YEAR 1903.
To the Right Worshipful the Mayor, Aldermen and Councillors
of the Metropolitan Borough of Islington.
Gentlemen,
In presenting you with my report, on the health and sanitary
administration of your Borough, I am glad to be able to congratulate you on
the fact that, during the year with which it deals its death-rate from all
causes, its infantile mortality-rate, its zymotic death-rate, as well as its attackrate
from infectious diseases were the lowest on record.
The year has also been fruitful of very useful sanitary work in the
underground bakehouses, which have now been made as habitable and
comfortable for workers from a health point of view as it is possible to make
such places.
A more vigorous enforcement of the law relating to houses let in lodgings
or occupied by members of more than one family has been adopted, and more
houses than usual have been added to the register. Much, however, still
remains to be done in this direction, and I am glad to know that your Public
Health Committee are resolved that that portion of the Public Health
(London) Act, 1891, dealing with tenement houses shall be firmly administered,
and that an Inspector, who shall devote the whole of his time, shall be
appointed to inspect houses let in the northern part of the Borough, as is
already done in its southern district.