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Public Health Department,
(1) Lambeth Town Hall,
Brixton Hill, S.W. 2.
March, 1928.
To the Mayor, Aldermen and Councillors
of the Metropolitan Borough of Lambeth.
Mr. Mayor, Ladies and Gentlemen,
In presenting the Annual Report for the year 1927, it has been
necessary for Dr. Thompson and myself to confer and agree as to
the form in which the Report shall be presented. As the result
of our mutual agreement, I would now remind the Council that
this is the final Annual Report that I shall have the honour of
presenting, officially, on the statistics (vital and mortal) for the
Borough of Lambeth, as I retired (under the age-limit) from the
position of Medical Officer of Health and Chief Executive Tuberculosis
Officer on October 31st, 1927, after 32 years' service (vide
farewell letter in Appendix). Fortunately, the statistics with which
this official Report deals, the statistics for 1927, are satisfactory
in every way, as in previous years.
The Registrar-General's estimated Borough of Lambeth population
for 1927 (middle of the year) is 307,700*, and, upon this
basis, the various general and zymotic and special death-rates are
based.
Tuberculosis is gradually, though slowly, declining, whilst
typhoid or “ enteric “ fever is, practically, a disease of the past, as
is also typhus fever.
Even the revised records for 1927 {i.e. revised on the RegistrarGeneral's
new estimated populations) are well worthy of being set
* This represents a considerable decrease for the year 1927 (viz.:—3,300)
in the estimated population, and this fact (for which the Registrar-General is
responsible) must be taken into consideration, when considering the 1927
statistics, which, otherwise, would have been even more favourable,
statistically, on comparison with past years.