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Public Health Department,
Lambeth Town Hall,
Brixton Hill, S.W.
February, 1911.
To the Mayor, Aldermen and Councillors of the
Metropolitan Borough of Lambeth.
Mr. Mayor and Gentlemen,
The Vital Statistics of the Borough of Lambeth for
the year 1910, the first decennium of the new Borough, are
the best yet recorded, either in the Borough or in the old
Parish of the Vestry of Lambeth, and special mention must
be drawn to the great reduction in the Infantile Mortality
Rate, a fact to be considered in connection with (a) the
statistics on Epidemic Diarrhœa; (b) the work carried out
under the Notification of Births Act; and (c) the records of
the Lambeth Milk Depot—all of which are specially set
out in detail in the present Report. The Sanitary Statistics
of the Borough of Lambeth for the year 1910 are no less
satisfactory.
The Council is to be congratulated upon having appointed
a permanent Health Visitor under the new Health
Visitors (London) Order, 1909.
To the Members of the Council my thanks are again
due for carrying out my suggestions and acting upon my
advice, the results justifying such action, as also to the Chief
Officers of the Council and the Public Health staff.
I am, Mr. Mayor and Gentlemen,
Your obedient Servant,
Joseph Prieslty
Medical Officer of Health.