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BOROUGH OF SOUTHWARK.
Public Health Office,
Town Hall, Walworth Road.
Sir and Gentlemen,
I have the honour of submitting for your consideration my
Twenty-Second Annual Report on the vital statistics and general sanitary
work of the Borough for the year 1908.
There has been during the year a further important decline in the
death-rate, and a small decline in the birth-rate.
There has been a small amount of notifiable disease and of infectious
disease generally during the year. Cerebro-Spinal Fever was fatal in six
cases.
The year upon the whole was a healthy one, and the Infant Mortality
further declined.
Many important matters have engaged the attention of the Public
Health Staff. Infants were more regularly visited and the homes carefully
examined. Additional water supplies were provided in many of our
tenemented houses.
The Staff has zealously performed its duties.
I have to thank the Council and the Public Health Committee for
their courtesy and support.
I have the honour to be,
Your obedient servant,
G. B. MILLSON,
Medical Officer of Health.
To the Mayor, Aldermen and Councillors
of the Borough of Southwark.