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CHE 47
METROPOLITAN BOROUGH OF CHELSEA.
AMUA! (ABRTXSHD) REPORT
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MEDICAL CFFICER OF HEATH._
for the year 1944.
To the Mayor, Aldermen and Councillors
of the Metropolitan Borough of Chelsea.
My Lord, Mr. Mayor, Ladies arid Gentlemen,
I have the honour to submit my .Annual Report on the
health and sanitary conditions of the Borough for 1944. In
accordance with instructions from the Ministry of Health
the report has again been prepared in abridged form.
The health of the population was satisfactory.
There was no serious outbreak of infectious disease
during the year.
The number of notified cases of diphtheria continues
to be small. None of these cases had completed a course of
immunisation prior to onset of the disease,
Maternity and Child Welfare work has continued to
grow in extent and usefulness. The attendance by mothers
at the ante-natal clinic was 1428,
As in former years, much attention has been devoted
to the supervision of food supplies.
I should like to thank members of the Council for the
support and sympathetic consideration which they have extended
to me and for their attention to the problems which it has
been my duty to lay before them.
I am, My Lord, Mr. Mayor, ladles and Gentlemen,
Your obedient Servant,
W.H.L. McCarthy, M.D., D.P.H.
Medical Officer of Health.
Public Health Department,
Town Hall,
Chelsea, S.h w. 3
August, 1945.