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7
ANNUAL REPORT
of the
MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH
For the Year 1913.
To the Mayor, Aldermen, and Councillors,
Metropolitan Borough of Battersea.
Gentlemen,
I have the honour to submit my Eighth Annual Report on the
health and sanitary condition of the Borough of Battersea. In
doing so, it is my privilege to point to the satisfactory position
which your Borough occupies in regard to its morbid and mortality
statistics.
It is a matter for regret that some delay has occurred in the
formulation of a Tuberculosis Scheme for the Borough. The settlement
of this question is a matter of the greatest importance to
the public health of the Borough, which it is hoped will be effected
at an early date.
Owing to illness, I was absent from my duties during the first
quarter of the year, and Dr. A. R. Litteljohn (now of the Local
Government Board) was appointed by the Council as Acting
Medical Officer of Health.
I have again to express my thanks to the members of the
Council for the support extended to me. To my colleagues, the
Chief Officers of the Council, and the Public Health Staff, my
thanks are also due for assistance always willingly rendered.
G. QUIN LENNANE.
Town Hall,
Lavender Hill,
S.W.