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Acton Arban District Council
Annual Report of the Medical Officer
For the Year ending 31st December, 1904
To the Chairman and Members
of the Acton District Council.
Gentlemen,
I have the honour to submit my Eleventh Annual
Report on the health and sanitary condition of your
town. At the request of Dr. Young, the county medical
officer, I have, besides dividing the report into sections,
given a short general description of the district, mentioning
at the same time a few points that I thought
might be of some interest.
It will be noticed that the death-rate continues
gradually to fall, and, with the exception of 1903, was
the lowest on record. There is no better evidence of
the health and sanitary condition of a district than a
gradually falling death-rate, and we now well rank as
one of the healthiest suburbs of London.
The chief public works of importance, from a
sanitary point of view, have been as follows:—The
opening of the baths, which are a great boon to the
district ; the building of a convenience on St. Mary's