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TO THE CHAIRMAN AND MEMBERS OF THE BOARD
OF WORKS FOR THE STRAND DISTRICT.
Gentlemen,
I have the honour to submit to you my Annual Report
on the Health and Sanitary Condition of the Strand District
during the year 1898. It contains the Statistical Tables required
by the Local Government Board, and other tables from which
an idea may be formed of the position the District occupies from
a health point of view, as compared with London as a whole and
its various groups of districts.
Special attention is drawn to the question of the prevention
of Consumption of the Lungs and other forms of Tuberculosis ;
to the importance of and necessity for greater care being exercised
in regard to the places where food is prepared, stored or sold,
with special reference to the large number of restaurants of
various kinds in this District; to the methods adopted for the
disinfection of rooms after infectious disease, &c.
The work done in connection with the Clare Market Scheme
under the "Housing of the Working Classes Act" is detailed,
and attention directed to the great difficulty which the persons
displaced have in finding house room.
A large amount of good work has been performed during the
year by the Officials of the Sanitary Staff, who have discharged
their often difficult duties to my entire satisfaction.
I am, Gentlemen,
Your obedient Servant,
FRANCIS J. ALLAN,
Medical Officer of Health.
Health Department,
5, Tavistock Street, W.C.
I5 th February, 1899.