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Metropolitan Borough of Hackney.
REPORT OF THE MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH
FOR THE YEAR 1919.
PUBLIC HEALTH DEPARTMENT,
Town Hall, Hackney, E.8.
June, 1920.
To the Mayor, Aldermen and Councillors
of the Metropolitan Borough of Hackney.
Ladies and Gentlemen,
I have pleasure in submitting to you my Annual Report on
the Public Health of the Metropolitan Borough of Hackney for the
year 1919; and upon the work performed by the Public Health
Department during that year.
Before entering upon the report itself, however, it is fitting that
I should make some reference to the unexpectedly sudden death of
your late Medical Officer of Health, Dr. John King-Warry, which
occurred on March 9th of the year under review, just before the
completion of the 64th year of his age. Dr. King-Warry was
appointed Medical Officer of Health of the Borough, in a temporary
capacity, in April, 1892, during the absence on sick leave for three
months of the then Medical Officer of Health, Dr. John William
Tripe; but, the latter having died before the expiration of the three
months, Dr. Warry's engagement was continued, still in a temporary
capacity, at a salary of only £315 per annum, until July, 1894, when
he was appointed permanently at a salary commencing at £500
a year and rising to £700. Recently, he was in receipt of an extra
£100 per annum as remuneration for his services as Chief Executive