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Annual Report of the Medical Officer of Health—1896.
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Local Government Board,
Whitehall, S.W.
17th December, 1896.
Sir,
I am directed by the Local Government Board to forward to you, herewith,
copies of Forms to be appended to the Annual Reports for 1896, required to be made
by Medical Officers of Health, together with a Memorandum as to the Annual Reports
to be made by those Officers, and I am to request that these copies may be sent without
delay to the Medical Officer of Health for the District. The Report itself will doubtless
contain detailed statistical information, but the Board think it desirable that, in addition,
tabular statements of Sickness and Mortality should be made in all districts on a uniform
-plan, and it is with this object that the forms in question are issued.
I am at the same time, to remind the Authority that if the Medical Officer of
Health fails to send to the Board such a Report as is required by the Regulations, it
will devolve on them to certify the fact to the County Council, and in that case, under
Section 24 (2) (c) of the Local Government Act, 1888, a sum equal to one-half of his
Salary will be forfeited to the Crown, and the Sanitary Authority will lose the benefit
-of the re-paymcnt of a moiety of the Salary by the County Council. It is important
that the Annual Report of the Medical Officer of Health should be made within a
reasonable time after the close of the year to which it relates, and the Board trust that
they will receive at an early date in the coming year, the copy which is to be transmitted
to them.
I am further to request that the attention of the Medical Officer of Health may be
called to the 19th Section of the same Act, under which be is required also to. send a
copy of the Annual Report to the County Council.
I 'am, Sir,
Your obedient Servant,
(Signed) HUGH OWEN,
Secretary.
To the Vestry Clerk
of St. George the Martyr, Southwark.
Memorandum as to Annual Reports of Medical Officers of Health.
Every Medical Officer of Health, appointed under Order of the Local Government
Board, is required to make an annual report with regard to the Sanitary District which
is under his superintendence. This report is to be for the year ending the 31st
December, or, if the Officer at that date has not been in office for a whole year, then
for so much of the year as has elapsed since his appointment. The report is to be made
to the Sanitary Authority, and the Medical Officer of Health himself should send a copy
of it to the Local Government Board and to the London County Council. It should be
made to the Sanitary Authority as soon as practicable after the expiration of the year
to which it relates, and should be in the hands both of the Sanitary Authority and of
the Local Government Board within, at most, five months from the end of the year.
The Board's copy of the report should be forwarded to them when the original is sent
to the Sanitary Authority, except where the report is likely to be printed by order of
the Authority. In such cases the Board need only be supplied with a printed copy.
Article 18 (Section 15) of the Board's Order of 8th December, 1891, specifies the
information to be contained in the Annual Report, and is printed below.