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Public Health Department,
Town Hall,
Hornsey, N.8.
His Worship the Mayor, Aldermen and Councillors
of the Borough of Hornsey
Mr. Mayor, Ladies and Gentlemen,
I have the honour to submit this my Annual Report on the health of
the Borough for the year ended the 31st December, 1951.
The work of your public health department during the year has been
full of interest. With other branches of the health and allied services it
has contributed to a high standard of health locally, as measured by vital
statistics. No complacency can be felt, however, since such figures fail to
give a true picture of the degree of positive health enjoyed by individuals
which go to make up the community. The heavy use being made of the
curative services in Hornsey, as elsewhere, demonstrates the urgent need
for greater stress on prevention of disease and education of the public in
maintaining healthy standards of living. Your health department has been
concerned with these and many other environmental health problems
throughout the year; and recorded in the body of this Report.
During the year Dr. P. A. Tyser was appointed Deputy County Medical
Officer for Cambridgeshire. All who knew Dr. Tyser while he was in
Hornsey will wish him well in his new office.
To the Chairman, Councillor R. A. Butler, j.p., and members of the
Health Committee I wish to record my appreciation of their ready support
and encouragement during the year.
In commending the work of my colleagues on the staff I must again
pay a special tribute to the loyal devotion of Mr. Jesse, the Chief Sanitary
Inspector, and for the direct personal assistance given to me at all times
by Mr. Davies the Chief Clerk.
I am,
Your obedient servant,
G. Hamilton Hogben,
Medical Officer of Health.
1st September, 1952.
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