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ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH
FOR THE YEAR 1919.
Council Offices,
Acton, W.3.
June, 1920.
To the Chairman and Members
of the Urban District Council of Acton.
Ladies and Gentlemen,
I beg to submit the Annual Report on the work carried
out by the Public Health Department, together with the Vital
Statistics during the year, 1919.
The Ministry of Health has issued a Memorandum as to
the contents and arrangements of the Annual Reports of Medical
Officers of Health and in an accompanying Circular urge the desirability
to compile the Report upon the lines indicated in the
Memorandum; the subjects therein specified are being dealt with
as nearly as possible in the order there given.
Population.
For the sake of accuracy in our vital statistics, it is fortunate
that we are approaching the period when a complete Census of
the population will be made. The population of the district
at the Census of 1911 was 57,497. Since the Census many other
enumerations have been made, and estimates of the population
have been based upon these enumerations. In this district the
earlier enumerations were approximately correct. The first
enumeration took place in August 1915 under the National