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REPORT
of the
MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH
FOR THE YEAR 1909.
To the Worshipful the Mayor, Aldermen and Councillors
of the Borough of Islington.
Gentlemen,
Once more it affords me great pleasure, in presenting the fifty-fourth
annual report on the health and sanitary condition of your Borough which
deals with the year 1909, to be able to congratulate you on its continued good
state of health.
This condition is all the more satisfactory when one recollects that
it is Islington's greatest asset, a fact which should always be remembered
when matters affecting public health work are under consideration.
At the present time the prevention of deaths among very young infants is
engaging the attention of nearly every sanitary authority in the kingdom, and,
therefore, I would ask you to pay particular attention to that portion of the
report which deals with this matter, for it is of the utmost importance that the
causes of these deaths should be understood, for then the necessity of appointing
health visitors to instruct mothers as to the rearing of their children will
become very apparent.
I take this opportunity of expressing my sincere thanks to the clerical
and inspectorial staffs of the department over which I have control for their
assistance ungrudgingly afforded, and in this connection would specially name
Mr. James R. Leggatt, the Superintendent and Chief Sanitary Inspector, and
Mr. G. H. King, the Chief Clerk.
I am,
Your faithful servant,
Medical Officer of Health.
Town Hall,
Islington,
lst July, 1910