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Public Health Office,
24, Somerset Street,
London, W.
April, 1912.
To the Mayor, Aldermen and Councillors of the Metropolitan
Borough of St. Marylebone.
Mr. Mayor and Gentlemen,
I have the honour to submit the following Report on the public health and
sanitary condition of the Borough of St. Marylebone for the year 1911, which is
made in accordance with the instructions of the Local Government Board relating
to Annual Reports of Medical Officers of Health.
The year 1911 was the census year and some of the results of the enumeration
are given in subsequent pages.
The fact that the population has decreased considerably since the census of 1901
is already known to you, the diminution being far in excess of estimations.
Some of the rates, calculated on the population of 1911, compare unfavourably
with those of recent years, but as the population in these years was probably greatly
over-estimated considerable allowances must be made.
As a matter of fact the year 1911 was far from unsatisfactory. An increased
amount of work was done in every branch of the department, and there is every reason
to believe that what was done was greatly to the advantage of the public health.
I have received the greatest amount of assistance and encouragement in connection
with the work of the department from the Public Health Committee. To the chairman
of that committee Councillor the Rev. J. A. Beaumont, M.A., who has presided over it
now for five years in succession, and the chairman of the Dust Sub-Committee,
Mr. Alderman J. Lea-Smith, I am especially grateful for the kindness they have shown
and the support they have given me.
All the members of the staff have worked exceedingly well together and with me
and I desire to place my high appreciation of their efforts on record.
I am,
Mr. Mayor and Gentlemen,
Your obedient servant,
CHARLES PORTER,
Medical Officer of Health.