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Metropolitan Borough of Hackney.
REPORT OF THE MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH
FOR THE YEAR 1918.
THE PUBLIC HEALTH DEPARTMENT,
Town Hall, Hackney, E.8.
To the Mayor, Aldermen and Councillors of
the Metropolitan Borough of Hackney.
Madam and Gentlemen,
I have pleasure in submitting to you my Annual Report upon
the Health of the Borough of Hackney for the year 1918.
During the whole of the year in question the late Dr. John
King Warry held office; and he continued to do so until his
sudden and much regretted death on March 9th, 1919.
In accordance with the wish of the Local Government Board,
expressed year by year during the latter part of the Great War,
Dr. King Warry's Annual Reports had been very considerably
abridged during that period, mainly on account of the great cost
of paper and printing. The desire for brevity has been expressed
again by the Local Government Board with respect to the Annual
Report for 1918. For this reason I have endeavoured to be as
brief as possible consistently with the importance of the facts
dealt with ; and, as a tribute to the memory of Dr. King Warry,
and because the year was really one of his years, I have adopted
the form of report produced by him during his last years of office,
thus completing in his own way the long series of reports written
by him during his twenty.six years of service as Medical Officer
of Health.