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623
REPORT OF THE MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH
FOR THE YEAR 1926.
To the Mayor, Aldermen and Councillors of the Metropolitan Borough
of Stoke Newington.
Ladies and Gentlemen,
The Minister of Health requests that Reports for 1926 shall be
of a more simple character than the full Survey Reports which
Medical Officers of Health were asked to prepare for the previous
year (1925). Accordingly this Report is little more than a presentation
of the Vital Statistics and work of Public Health performed
during 1926.
The chief Vital Statistics of the Borough for the year 1926 were
better than those for the preceding year; both the General Deathrate
and the rate of Infant Mortality being lower. There were only
two Metropolitan Boroughs with rates of Infant Mortality which
were lower than that for Stoke Newington.
The Infectious Sickness Rate for 1926 was much higher than
that for the preceding year, and this circumstance was due almost
entirely to the epidemic prevalence of Scarlet Fever.