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Public Health Department,
Blue Star House,
234/244, Stockwell Road,
S.W.9.
Tel: BRIxton 7755
the Mayor, Aldermen and Councillors
°f the Metropolitan Borough of Lambeth
Mr. .Mayor, Ladies and Gentlemen,
I have the honour to present to you the Annual Report on the health of the
Borough of Lambeth for the year 1964. This is the last report for a full year for
fte Metropolitan Borough, as on 1st April, 1965, the London Borough of Lambeth
came into being, covering an area about half as large again as that to which this
report refers.
The Metropolitan Borough was instituted on 1st November, 1900 as a result
the London Government Act 1899 but the boundaries were practically identical
Wlth those of the Vestry which preceded it.
The first Medical Officer of Health was appointed on 1st February, 1856 and
10 1857 his first annual report was recorded on two pages of the Annual Report
the proceedings of the Vestry. This, together with a list of Medical Officers
Health of the Vestry and Metropolitan Borough, is reproduced on pages 11 and
This is therefore the sixty-fourth Annual Report of the Medical Officer of
®lth for the Metropolitan Borough of Lambeth and the one hundred and ninth for
the area until recently comprising that Borough.
As I high-lighted some of the changes in the first hundred years in my annual
tePort for 1956, I do not propose to repeat them here.
The various vital statistics for the Borough show little change from those of
ast year and are commented on in the body of the report.
The shortage of public health inspectors has continued and the borough
'ins a student training scheme but the staff likely to be obtained in this way
tely replaces losses due to retirement.
To offset this shortage of inspectors and to carry out duties in connection
**th houses-in-multiple occupation the Council authorised the appointment of four
c«nical assistants similar to those already employed on Smoke Control.