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Public Health Department,
Town Hall,
Haverstock Hill,
Hampstead, N.W.3.
11th April, 1922.
To the Mayor, Aldermen and Councillors
of the Metropolitan Borough of Hampstead.
Mb. Mayor, Ladies and Gentlemen,
I have the honour to place before you my Annual Report for the
year 1921.
The taking of the Census during the year 1921 renders it necessary
to calculate our vital statistics on a figure considerably lower than the
estimated population of 1920. This comes about by reason of the
decennial Census originally arranged for 24th April being delayed until
June 19th, and, whilst the returns for the country are, as a whole, fairly
comprehensive, it would appear that the statistics for certain localities,
of which Hampstead is one, have been considerably affected by the
postponement and by other causes. The population of the Borough at
the Census 1911 was 85,495; the recent Census records that the number
of people who slept in Hampstead on Sunday, June 19th, was 86,080 an
increase over the 1911 figure of 585 only. When one calls to mind
the great problem that empty houses constituted in the previous Census
year and compares it with the acute housing problem which exists to-day,
in spite of extensive maisone'ting and sub-letting, it appears to me to be
obvious that many residents must have been away from Hampstead
when the 1921 Census was taken. Moreover, in 1919, when the
population was rationed, upwards of 96,000 people were put upon rations.
The Report of the Tuberculosis Medical Officer on the Tuberculosis
work generally will be found on page 55; and on page 72 is the Report
of the Medical Officer in charge of the Pre-Maternity Clinics.
The year has been a very busy one for all members of the Staff
whether engaged in duties appertaining to the general public health,
tuberculosis, maternity and child welfare, or housing sections of the
Department,