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The Urban District Council of Action.
ANNUAL REPORT OF THE MEDICAL OFFICER
for the year 1900.
To the Chairman and Members of the Acton District Council.
Gentlemen,
I beg to submit to you my Annual Report on the Health and
Sanitary Condition of Acton during 1900.
The population shows a marked increase compared with preceding
years; and our death rate of 137 per 1,000 is remarkably low, taking
into consideration the number of children resident in the district.
The neighbourhood is being rapidly built upon, and new estates are
being opened up; this, together with the improved method of
locomotion by means of electricity will make Acton one of the most
accessible and desirable suburbs of London.
The chief works of Sanitary interest during the year have been:—
The experiments in connection with the Bacterial Treatment of our
Sewage; the Building and Opening of a most perfect and up-to-date
Mortuary; the determination of the Council to erect Baths; and
preliminary arrangements have been made for the purchase of an