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REPORT OF THE MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH FOR
THE YEAR, 1927.
To the Mayor, Aldermen and Councillors of the Metropolitan Borough
of Stoke Newington.
Ladies and Gentlemen,
I have to present the first and the last Annual Report that
it will be my duty to prepare for you as Medical Officer of Health.
If it differs in arrangement and to some degree in content from
those which have been presented to you hitherto, that is in part
because I have endeavoured to follow the guidance of the Ministry
of Health offered for the 1927 Report in such matters. And if it
be found slender in bulk, and devoid of considered counsel for policy,
that is in part because of the very short time that it has been my
privilege to study the circumstances of the Borough.
The Local Authority is no longer content to be solely preoccupied
with those limited health services for which it is
administratively responsible. It desires to take a broader view—
to be acquainted with all the influences, all the organisations, that
operate for the maintenance of health, the prevention of disease,
and the care of the sick within the limits of the Borough. It