View report page

CAM 42.
Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
Public Health Department,
Town Hall.
Camberwell, S.E.5.
1st July, 1936.
To the Mayor, Aldermen and Councillors of the
Metropolitan Borough of Camberwell.
Mr. Mayor, Ladies and Gentlemen,
I have the honour to present my 14th Annual Report on the
sanitary circumstances, the sanitary administration, and the vital
statistics of the area of the Metropolitan Borough of Camberwell.
The arrangement of the contents of this report for 1935 follows
that of my last report and is in accordance with the instructions
laid down in Ministry of Health Circular No. 1492.
The year has been one of steady progress. New schemes have
been introduced and existing schemes strengthened for securing
the health of the inhabitants of the Borough.
A summary of the vital statistics appears on page 4, and in
this connection it is satisfactory to refer to the improvement which
took place in 1935 in the birth, death and infantile mortality
rates.
The representation of insanitary areas and individual unfit
houses has been carried out energetically, and the re-housing of the
occupants of these insanitary dwellings in modern homes has
proceeded satisfactorily.
The inspection of the district which was carried out in accordance
with the provisions of Section 1 of the Housing Act, 1935, for
the purpose of ascertaining the number of dwelling-houses which
were overcrowded, was commenced on November 1st, 1935, and
was well advanced at the end of the year.
The public health services generally are reviewed in the
respective sections of this report, and it only remains for me to
record that the work of a very busy year has been greatly facilitated
by the unfailing support and kind consideration afforded me by
the Chairmen and Members of the Public Health and the Maternity
and Child Welfare Committees of the Council, and by the loyal
and valuable assistance given cheerfully at all times by the staff
of the Public Health Department.
Your obedient Servant,
H. W. BARNES,
Medical Officer of Health.
A