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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-Third Annual Report, which deals with the vital statistics and
general sanitary work of the Borough for the year 1909.
The death-rate is much the same as last year, and the regular decline
in the birth-rate continues.
There has been an extremely small amount of notifiable disease, and
of infectious disease generally, during the year. There were five cases of
Cerebro-Spinal Fever notified, with three deaths.
I am glad to be able to report that the year has been a healthy one, and
that the Infant Mortality was never so low, the rate being 119 per 1000
births. We are certainly making good progress in the lowering of this
Infant rate.
All the important matters of sanitation have been during the year
pushed forward. Infants from birth have been visited and the homes
examined.
The Staff has done excellent work.
I have again 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.