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Metropolitan Borough of Deptford.
Public Health Department,
Town Hall,
New Cross, S.E.
To the Mayor, Aldermen and Councillors.
Gentlemen,
I beg to present the Annual Report on the state of the Public
Health and the record of sanitary work carried out during the
year 1915.
This Report also gives:—An account of the work done under
the Food and Drugs Acts ; a general reference to the question of
Maternity and Infant Welfare; and a detailed description of our
Tuberculosis Dispensary work for the year.
Your attention is drawn to an increase in the death-rate which
is not to be accounted for by any epidemic disease but rather to
deaths attributed to old age and respiratory diseases, the latter
especially in the first four or five months of the year. The large
rainfall which occurred particularly in the spring and winter months,
was undoubtedly the cause of the increased number of deaths from
respiratory diseases.
I wish to express my thanks to the members of the Council for
their kind and courteous consideration in connection with matters
affecting this department.
I have much pleasure in reporting that the staff of the Public
Health Department have carried out their difficult duties in a satisfactory
and conscientious manner and to my entire satisfaction.
I am,
Your obedient Servant,
W. H. Whitehouse.