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Publlc Health Department,
Town Hall,
BETHNAL GREEN, E.2.
June, 1952,
To the Mayor, Aldermen and Councillors of the
Metropolitan Borough of Bethnal Qreen
Madam, Ladies and Gentlemen,
Although I am submitting the Annual Report on the Public
Health and Sanitary Circumstances of the Borough for the year
1951. the work of the Public Health Department was under the
direction of Dr. W.T. Donovan until his sudden death on the 15th
October, 1951. Dr. Donovan was appointed Jointly by the Boroughs
of Bethnal Green and Poplar as Medical Officer of Health on the
31st March, 1949. and held this appointment until his death.
The general health of the Borough remained satlsfactory
during the year and there was no undue incidence of any major
infectious disease.
The Registrar General's estimate of the population of the
Borough was 58,000, a decrease of 730 as compared with the
previous year.
The number of live births registered was 976 giving a birth
rate of 16.8 per 1,000 of the population as compared with 16,7
for 1950 and with 15.5 for the whole of England and Wales in 1951.