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Metropolitan Borough of Deptford.
Public Health Department,
Town Hall,
New Cross, S.E.
To the Right Worshipful the Mayor, Aldermen
and Councillors.
Gentlemen,
In presenting the Annual Report on the Health Administration
of the Borough for the year 1911, it is impossible to
deal with all aspects of the question in as full detail as they
deserve, but the following pages deal, however briefly, with
most of the important features.
In comparing this report with previous years it is well to
remember that the memorandum which is sent out by the
Local Government Board at the end of each year on the
preparation of annual reports has increased in size very considerably
during the past few years, and its enlargement may
be said to be an index of the additional duties which now
devolve upon sanitary authorities.
Social Conditions.
Under the heading of social conditions of the district, the
Medical Officer of Health is for the first time asked to state as
regards his district the amount of Poor Law relief and the
extent to which hospital and other forms of medical relief are
utilised.