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METROPOLITAN BOROUGH OF FULHAM
Public Health Department,
Town Hall,
Fulham, S.W.6.
September, 1946.
To the Mayor, Alderman and Councillors
of the Metropolitan Borough of Fulham.
Mr. Mayor, Ladies and Gentlemen,
I have the honour to present the Annual Report on the health
of the Borough for the year 1945, which has been marked by a gradual
return to peace-time activities. In accordance with instructions
of the Ministry of Health this report is once again in an abridged
form.
One service that has been extended is the Foot Clinic, wiich
is now on a full-time basis, and about which a further note will be
found in this report.
The population of the borough (according the Registrar-
General's estimate) again increased being 99,790 as compared with
95,090 in 1944.
Both the Birth and Death rates were lower than in the previous
year 17.8 against 18.5 and 13.04 against 16.6 respectively. The
drop in the Death Rate is of course mainly attributable to the drop
in deaths due to Violent causes (269 to 41) in which deaths from
enemy action were included.
The Infant Mortality Rate was again a low record, the figures
the past ten years being
196 64 1941 50
1937 56 1942 48
1938 51 1943 63
1939 47 1944 43
1940 45 1945 42
I should like to thank the members of the Council in general
and the Chairmen and members of the Public Health and Maternity and
Child Welfare Committees in particular for their co-operation and
constructive interest in the work of the Department, and the members
of the staff for their loyal support, during my first year as Medical
Officer of Health.
I have the honour to be,
Mr. Mayor, Ladies and Gentlemen,
Your obedient Servant,
P.L.T. BENNETT
M.C., M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., T.D.D., D.P.H.
Medical Officer of Health.