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REPORT
OF THE
MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH
FOR THE YEAR 1912.
To the Worshipful the Mayor, Aldermen and Councillors
of the Metropolitan Borough of Islington.
Mk. Mayor, Aldermen and Councillors.
I have pleasure in submitting the fifty-seventh annual report of the
Medical Officer of Health on the Health and Sanitary Condition of Islington,
which deals with the year 191'2, and in doing so I have once more to
congratulate you on its satisfactory state.
The mortality has been low, not only from those general diseases
which cause the deaths of the great majority of the people, but ;.lso from the
principal epidemic diseases, and from those which usually affect infants.
The deaths from cancer, however, continue to increase, and although
scientific men are continually making research into its cause, yet no
prophylactic has up to now been discovered, although much most valuable
knowledge has been obtained about the disease itself, so that there is a
legitimate hope that one day a cure may be discovered for it, and possibly
a method for its prevention.
The year has been notable by the issue of an order of the Local
Government Board making all forms of tuberculosis compulsorily notifiable,
and by the passing of the National Insurance Act, both of which measures
will, it is hoped, prove of great value in the staying of the ravages of what
is rightly termed the " Great White Plague of the North," the mortality
from which, it may be stated, exhibits a slight tendency to decrease in the
borough.