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PREFACE.
To the Mayor, Aldermen and Councillors of the
Borough of Hornsey.
Gentlemen,
In accordance with the order of the Ministry of Health, I
have the honour of presenting to you my third Annual Report
on the Health of the Borough of Hornsey. This Report is
written on the lines advocated by the Ministry of Health.
No remarkable events from the point of view of the Public
Health have characterised the past year. The general health
of the Borough has remained good and preventable diseases have
been few.
During the past fifty years the direction and the aim of
Preventive Medicine has altered. Half a century ago every effort
was turned towards the abatement of insanitary surroundings,
and this resulted, in Hornsey and in other places, in making our
towns clean and wholesome. To-day, although we take a pride
in the preservation of our excellent Municipal Sanitation, yet we
believe that Preventive Medicine cannot be wholly successful
until the principles and practice of hygiene are understood and
followed by the individual. The public is slowly becoming educated
in matters relating to health and well-being, and the
house-to-house work of sanitary inspectors, of school nurses and
of health visitors is gradually helping to teach the public and to
establish a sanitary conscience among the people. Work of this
nature merits every extension and encouragement; and it is most
gratifying to notice how greatly the services of your staff of
inspectors and nurses are appreciated by the people who are
visited, helped and instructed.
I should like to take this opportunity of thanking the
Members of the Town Council for their support during the last
twelve months, and of expressing my appreciation of the help
afforded to me by the Heads of the other Borough Departments
and by the various members of my staff.
I am, Gentlemen,
Your obedient Servant,
A. T. NANKIVELL.
January, 1924.