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Public Health Department,
Lambeth Town Hall,
Brixton Hill, S.W.
April, 1915.
Medical Officer of Health and
Chief Executive Tuberculosis Officer.
To the Mayor, Aldermen and Councillors
of the Metropolitan Borough of Lambeth.
Mr. Mayor and Gentlemen,
The details contained in the Annual Report for 1914, dealing
with the Vital Statistics of the Borough of Lambeth, are again of a
satisfactory nature, showing the success of the work carried out by
the Council's Public Health Department. The death-rates are low,
both general and zymotic, whilst the infantile mortality rate (deaths
of infants per 1,000 births) is specially noteworthy in that respect.
The Lambeth Municipal Tuberculosis Dispensaries Scheme has
justified its inauguration last year (1913), the work carried out at the
Council's two Tuberculosis Dispensaries during 1914 being set out
in the Appendix. The details of this work speak for themselves.
Extra work has been thrown upon the Public Health Department
owing to the war and the consequent billeting and encamping
of troops within the Borough. In this respect the consent of the
Council, on September 24th, 1914, to the appointment of your
Medical Officer of Health as a Sanitary Supervisor attached to the
Sanitary Staff of the Deputy Director of Medical Services (London
District) has proved of value, whilst the cordial relationship between
the military and naval authorities and the Borough Council is
worthy of special note from a point of view of administrative
efficiency.
To the chief Officers of the Council and to the Public Health
Staff my thanks are again due, as also to the members of the Council,
for assisting me in carrying out my important duties as Medical
Officer of Health and Chief Executive Tuberculosis Officer for the
Metropolitan Borough of Lambeth.
I am, Mr. Mayor and Gentlemen,
Your obedient Servant,