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REPORT
of the
MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH
FOR THE YEAR 1913.
To The Worshipful The Mayor, Aldermen and Councillors
of the Metropolitan Borough of Islington.
Mr. Mayor, Aldermen and Councillors,
In compliance with the Order of the Local Government Board, I have
pleasure in submitting to you the fifty-eighth annual report of the Medical
Officer of Health, which deals with the health and sanitary slate of the
borough during 1913, and in congratulating you that both continue to be
good.
Last year I drew special attention to the increase of cancer, which I
regret to inform you still continues not only in Islington but throughout the
United Kingdom ; and I have thought it advisable to dwell at some length on
the subject in this report.
It is satisfactory to find, on the other hand, that the deaths from
Pulmonary Consumption continue to decrease, and, I trust, when the two
Tuberculosis Dispensaries now authorised by you have been established, that
they will cause a still further decline in the mortality, and also tend to stop
the spread of the disease itself.
For the greater part of the year the Public Health Committee occupied
themselves with the question of Tuberculosis, its cause, prevention and cure;
and ultimately recommended to you a scheme to establish a municipal
dispensary on clearly defined and well tried lines; and indeed, this scheme
had obtained the provisional approval of the Local Government Board
before it was presented to you. U nfortunately it did not meet with your approbation,
and the matter was referred to a Special Committee, who have since