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Borough of Southwark
Public Health Department,
Town Hall,
Walworth Road, S.E.
Dear Sir and Gentlemen,
I have the honour of submitting for your consideration my twenty.
sixth Annual Report which deals with the vital statistics and general
sanitary work of the Borough for the year 1912. The health of the
inhabitants of the Borough has been good. There has been a small
amount of infectious disease which has been generally of a mild type.
Enteric Fever still continues to decline both in the number of cases and
in its fatality.
The year has been marked by the coming into operation of the
Insurance Act. A large amount of work in the latter part of the year
was done in assisting the Insurance Committee both in arranging for the
medical treatment of insured persons privately, and in providing a Tuberculin
Dispensary where more than a hundred patients were attended to.
The Tuberculin treatment with the examination of Phthisis contacts
took up the time of the Medical Officer of Health for at least two whole
days a week. The death rate cannot be considered unduly high for a
working class population.
The examination of foodstuffs, landed at the river bank and arriving
from inland, has been well carried out especially by the officer whose
whole time is devoted to this work. Good work has been done by the
Inspectors under the Public Health (London) Act, and under the
Housing, Town Planning, &c., Act. I have to thank the staff under me
for their ready assistance 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