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To the Mayor, Aldermen and Councillors of the
Metropolitan Borough of Saint Pancras.
Sir, Ladies & Gentlemen,
This Report for the year 1942 is the 86th
Annual Report that has been submitted, and the ninth
that I have had the honour to prepare. It is, in
accordance with instructions received from the Ministry
of Health, an abridged report from which everything
except essential statistical information has been
excluded.
The rise in the birth rate reported in the
last Annual Report is repeated during the year under
consideration, while there has again been a fall in the
death rate.
With the satisfactory progress of the war,
thoughts have turned to post-war planning, and the
Public Health Committee have commenced consideration
of the all Important question of improving housing
conditions in the Borough as soon as possible after the
cessation of hostilities,
I am, Sir, Ladles & Gentlemen,
Your obedient Servant
MAITLAND RADFORD
Medical Officer of Health