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Acton Urban District Council.
ANNUAL REPORT OF THE MEDICAL OFFICER
For the Year ending 31st December 1902.
To the Chairman and Members
of the Acton District Council.
Gentlemen,
I have the honour of submitting to you my Annual
Report—the ninth that I have presented—concerning the Vital Statistics
and General Sanitary Condition of your Town. The Death Rate is the
lowest on record, and is due to a great extent to the attention and care
that you have devoted to matters connected with the health of the
district. There is nothing so conducive to popularising a district as
a low Death Rate, and I sincerely trust that the efforts you are making to
render Acton a thoroughly desirable Residential Suburb will meet with
the success they deserve.
Our Infant Mortality is the lowest since 1891—this happy result
being due to the diminished number of deaths from Epidemic
Diarrhoea.
I have reported fully on the outbreak of Small Pox, and the measures
taken for dealing with the same. The arrangements that you have made
with the Clare Hall Small Pox Hospital, South Mimms, to retain ten
beds is a very wise and necessary precaution.
The efforts we are now making to deal with Consumption will, I
trust, help to relieve much suffering and prevent unnecessary infection.
The arrangements for dealing with our Sewage by means of Bacteria
are now completed, the three Septic Tanks and Filters being in full