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to the
PUBLIC HEALTH COMMITTEE.
Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen,
Agreeably with the standing orders of the
Council I herewith beg to submit the Annual Report
of the Public Health Department for the year ending
December 31st, 1909, being the fourteenth since the
re-organisation of the Department, and the twentieth
since my original appointment.
It has been customary for some years past in presenting
the annual report to submit for consideration
some one or other of the many questions affecting the
life and condition of the people in so far as it relates
to, and is affected by, Public Health Administration.
A prolonged industrial depression resulting in
generally irregular and (in many cases) total want of
employment has introduced a new factor into what is
generally termed "the condition of the people
question." As this new factor, or rather, perhaps,
this aggravation of an old one, must of necessity affect
our operations and the results of our procedure in