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Public Health Department,
Town Hall,
Haverstock Hill,
Hampstead, N.W.3.
17th April, 1935.
To the Mayor, Aldermen and Councillors
of the Metropolitan Borough of Hampstead.
Mr. Mayor, Ladies and Gentlemen,
I have the honour to submit my Annual Report upon the state of
the public health in the Metropolitan Borough of Hampstead for the
year 1934, which is the thirty-fourth of the series.
The report contains the information required by the Ministry of
Health, and is arranged in accordance with their suggestions.
In these introductory paragraphs it is my intention to refer very
briefly to the various outstanding events of the year under consideration.
In the body of the report the various health services are dealt
with in some detail in their appropriate sections.
1. Report of Ministry of Health Inspection.
A complete survey of the Health Services of the Borough
was carried out by officials of the Ministry of Health during
1933, and their report came to hand on the 16th of February,
1934.
This Ministry report stated, inter alia, that "a reasonable
standard of efficiency and progress is being maintained by the
Council in the discharge of their functions relating to Public
Health, and the Minister notes with appreciation the comprehensive
provision made in the Borough for maternal care, and
the special arrangements for the consideration of each maternal
or infant death." The attention of the Borough Council was
directed by the Ministry to the augmentation of certain of the
Public Health services, to which appropriate reference will be
made later.
2. Statistics.
The adjusted death rate in Hampstead for 1934 was 106, as
compared with 118 for England and Wales.