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V
Annual Report on the Health and Sanitary
Condition of the City of Westminster*
1925.
Mr. Mayor, My Lords, Ladies and Gentlemen,
I have the honour to present my Annual Report for 1925.
*
It includes Returns required by the Ministry of Health and the Home
Office.
It was intimated in Circular 510 of the Ministry in December, 1924,
that the Annual Report of the Medical Officer of Health for 1925 should
be a Survey Report dealing comprehensively with the measure of progress
in the improvement of the public health during the preceding five years,
and also with any changes which had taken place in the sanitary conditions
of the area, together with any alterations in the character and extent of
public health services such as [Housing, Water-supply, Maternity and
Child-Welfare and Tuberculosis Schemes.
My predecessor in his final Annual Report, which was issued last year,
presented a comprehensive survey of the changes which had taken place
in the sanitary conditions of the City during his long tenure of office.
I have, therefore, in this report dealt briefly with developments which
have occurred during the past five years. In most instances statistical
data relating to each year of the quinquennial period are shown for the
purpose of comparison. In dealing with certain subjects such as Maternity.
and Child-Welfare I have attempted to explain the methods of working
and the objects which it is our purpose to achieve. The state of the
general health of the City is reviewed and allusion is made to measures
for the prevention of sickness and mortality. The Ministry have required
detailed information under certain specified headings in several sections
of the report, which is in consequence somewhat more lengthy than usual.