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Bethnal Green 1912
Report on the sanitary condition and vital statistics during the year 1912 together with the report of the Chief Sanitary Inspector
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Metropolitan Borough of Bethnal Green.
Public Health Department,
Town Hall,
Patriot Square,
Bethnal Green, E.
TO THE
PUBLIC HEALTH COMMITTEE.
Annual
Report.
Mr. Chairman & Gentlemen,
Herewith I beg to submit for your consideration
the Annual Report on the work of the Public Health
Department for the year ended December 31st, 1912.
Details in
Appendices.
Full details of the various duties performed by the
staff are tabulated under the different headings in the
following Appendices lettered A to R, which renders it
unnecessary to recapitulate them here.
A brief mention of the more important items may
perhaps prove of some interest to the members
generally.
Sanitary
Supervision.
As regards the sanitary supervision of the Borough
the total number of all primary inspections amounts to
4,236 and goes to show that the former high level of
administrative effort has been maintained.