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To the Mayor, Aldermen and Councillors of the
Borough of Hornsey.
Mr. Mayor, Ladies and Gentlemen,
I have the honour to submit my Report on the Health of
the Borough of Hornsey for the year 1980.
Annual reports of Medical Officers of Health are of two
kinds—Ordinary Reports, which contain a record of the work
done during the year and the vital statistics for the year, and
Survey Reports every fifth year of a more detailed character,
surveying the progress made during the quinquennium. The
last survey report was submitted by your Medical Officer of
Health in 1925. This report for 1930 should in the ordinary
course of events be a Survey Report, but Circular 1,119 of 18th
June, 1930, addressed by the Ministry of Health to all Local
Authorities, says:—
"Although the Annual Report for 1930 will be a Report of
a more simple character than the full Survey Eeport which the
Medical Officer of Health was asked to prepare for 1925, it
should, for the following reasons, contain information on certain
matters in more detail than has been given in the Reports for
the last four years, viz.:—
"(a) The transfer of the Poor Law functions, in pursuance
of the Local Government Act, 1929, and the other changes
effected by that Act, have necessitated a careful survey, by
the Medical Officers of Counties and County Boroughs, of
the Hospital and other Medical Services available in their
respective areas. The information obtained in this connection
should be given in the Annual Eeport for 1930 on the lines
indicated in the Section of Appendix I. to this circular which
is headed ' General Provision of Health Services in the Area.'
"(b) The proposals of the Government in relation to
Housing, which are embodied in the Housing Bill at present
before Parliament, will necessitate the early directing of special
attention on the part of Medical Officers of Health to Housing
defects in their areas and the compilation of accurate records
regarding the Housing position generally. For this reason the