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ANNUAL REPORT
of the
MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH
for the year 1910.
March 1st, 1911.
To the Chairman and Members
of the Acton Distriet Council.
Gentlemen,
I have the honour, to submit to the Council a report on
the sanitary conditions of the district, together with the vital
and other statistics for the year 1910.
The population has been estimated at 57,000 inhabitants.
There is again a lower death-rate to record; in fact, last year
had the lowest death rate on record.
The infantile mortality is also the lowest on record. Scarlet
Fever and Diphtheria were less prevalent, and the deaths from
the former dropped from 16 in 1909 to 2 in 1910.
There was an increase in the number of notifications of
Enteric Fever and 2 deaths occurred.
Whooping Cough was more or less prevalent throughout the
year, but Measles caused but one death.
The Zymotic death rate was .95 per 1,000 compared with
2.2 in 1909. The death rate from Phthisis and other
tubercular diseases was again lower.
The house-to-house inspection in the South-West and SouthEast
Wards has been carried on throughout the year without
interruption, and proceedings have been taken under the Housing
and Town Planning Act for the closure of some of the
houses.