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Town Hall,
Fulham, S.W.6.
April, 1923.
To the Mayor, Aldermen and Councillors of the Metropolitan
Borough of Fulham.
Gentlemen,
I have the honour to submit herewith the Annual
Report on the Health and Sanitary Condition of the
Borough for the year 1922, this being my first annual
report as your Medical Officer of Health.
I should like to take this opportunity to place on
record my great appreciation of the help which I have
received from your late Medical Officer of Health, Dr.
J. C. Jackson. His advice in many instances has been
invaluable, and I feel that the satisfactory state of the
work to which I have succeeded is due in no small
measure to his foresight and sagacity. To my brother
officials and to the members of the staff of the Public
Health Department I also owe a debt of gratitude for
much help always willingly given.
I am grateful to members of the Council, and
particularly to the Chairmen of the Public Health and
Maternity and Child Welfare Committees, for sympathetic
consideration of public health matters. A
prologue such as this would be incomplete without
reference to the kind welcome which I have received
from the members of the different Voluntary Committees
who do so much to augment the work of the
Council, particularly in respect to Maternity and
Child Welfare. Fulham is extraordinarily fortunate in
its voluntary workers, and their efforts have done much
to benefit the people of the Borough.
I am, Mr. Mayor and Gentlemen,
Your obedient Servant,
A. MIDDLETON HEWAT,
Medical Officer of Health.