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Report or the medical Officer of health.
Public Health Department,
35, Brunswick Square,
Camberwell, S.E. 5.
1st June, 1926,
To the Mayor, Aldermen and Councillors of the
Metropolitan Borough of Camberwell.
Mr. Mayor, Ladies and Gentlemen, —I have the honour to
submit my Annual Report for the year 1925 on the health and
sanitary condition of the Borough of Camberwell.
This report is intended to be a Survey Report, and is
prepared in accordance with the instructions of the Ministry of
Health as conveyed in their Circular No. 648, dated the 10th
December, 1925. Survey Reports are expected to deal comprehensively
with
(a) The measure of progress made in the area during the
preceding five years in the improvement of the public
health.
(b) The extent and the character of the changes made during
that period in the public health services of the area.
(c) Any further action of importance in the organisation or
development of public health services contemplated by
Local Authorities or considered desirable by the Medical
Officer of Health.
Progress in public health depends on many factors—social,
industrial and economic, associated with an ever-increasing knowledge
and practice of the established precepts of healthy living.
Prevention of disease is by far the greatest field of modern
medicine, and has been proved to be not only the most economical
but also the most satisfactory plan of procedure in respect to
disease. To be effective it is essential to have an educated public.
One of the most striking factors in reviewing the state of the
public health for the last five years is the increasing interest
taken by the inhabitants of this Borough in matters affecting their
health. The Public Health Department has endeavoured to
assist the public by issuing pamphlets giving information on
subjects relating to the early signs of cancer, the danger of
measles and whooping cough being regarded as minor diseases,
and the rearing of infants.
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