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Public Health Department,
Town Hall,
Haverstock Hill,
Hampstead, N.W.3.
1st May, 1936.
To the Mayor, Aldermen and Councillors
of the Metropolitan Borough of Hampstead.
Mr. Mayor, Ladies and Gentlemen,
I have the honour to submit to you my Annual Report upon the
state of the public health in the Metropolitan Borough of Hampstead
for the year 1935. This report is the thirty-fifth of the series.
The report contains information required by the Ministry of
Health and is arranged in accordance with their suggestions.
1. Staff.
It is with the greatest regret that I have to record the loss
of A. J. Scott Pinchin, Esq., M.D. (Lond.), F.R.C.P. (Lond.),
who died on Friday, the 7th February, 1936. Dr. Scott Pinchin
was appointed in October, 1919, as Tuberculosis Officer and
Assistant Medical Officer of Health for Tuberculosis Work. For
many years he had been in the forefront of research work in his
particular branch of medicine; his death is therefore a very
serious loss which will be felt not only by his colleagues, but by
his patients in hospital, in clinics, and in private practice.
Mr. F. H. Hudson, Senior among the Sanitary Inspectors,
retired from the Council's service on the 30th September, 1935,
having completed over 40 years' municipal service, of which 38
years had been spent in Hampstead. During this time he had
earned the well-merited respect and affection, not only of his
colleagues in this Department, but of all the builders and architects
with whom he came into contact. Mr. A. Peverett, one of
the Inspectors in the Department, was appointed to fill the vacancy
thus created, and Mr. T. Williams of the Erith Public Health
Department was appointed as a Sanitary Inspector.
2. Statistics.
The adjusted death rate in Hampstead for 1935 was 10.5 as
compared with 11.7 for England and Wales. The birth rate