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Public Health Department,
Town Hall, Haverstock Hill,
Hampstead, n.w.
6th May, 1913.
To the Mayor, Aldermen and Councillors
of the Metropolitan Borough of Hampstead.
Mr. Mayor, Madam, and Gentlemen,
I have the honour to place before you the Medical Officer of
Health's Report for the year 1912. In the compilation I have adhered
to the headings and general outline of previous Reports, and as my term
of office only commenced in June, 1912, the following Report must
necessarily be restricted to a statement of bare facts and figures. In
this respect, however, it deals with the whole of the year 1912.
Pursuant to instructions sent me by the Local Government Board,
I have utilized the notes and records left by the late Medical Officer of
Health, and from such notes I have freely drawn in the reports and
statistics concerning Tuberculosis. This subject, I may add, overshadowed
all others in the work of the Department during the past year
I desire to take the opportunity of expressing my thanks to the
Council, especially to the Chairman and Members of the Public Health
Committee, for the support and sympathetic consideration they have
afforded me during my first term of office as Medical Officer of Health.
I am also deeply indebted to the Members of the Staff of the
Department who have carried out their work in a satisfactory and
efficient manner, and at all times have accorded me their most loyal and
unselfish co-operation.
I have the honour to be,
Mr. Mayor, Madam, and Gentlemen,
Your obedient Servant,
FRANK E. SCRASE,
Medical Officer of Health.