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ACT 24
1921
ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH
FOR THE YEAR 1921.
Municipal Offices,
Acton, W.3.
April, 1922.
To the Mayor, Aldermen and Councillors
of the Borough of Acton.
Ladies and Gentlemen,
1 beg to submit the Annual Report on the work carried out
by the Public Health Department, together with the Vital Statistics
for the year 1921.
The arrangement of the report differs in some respects from
that of previous years. Circular 269 issued by the Ministry of
Health indicated that Annual Reports of a full and detailed character
known as "survey reports" will normally be required at intervals
of not more than five years.
The reports of 1919 and 1920 are considered to have been
"survey reports." In other years, Annual Reports of a more simple
nature are permissible and certain information may be omitted.
For instance details as to conditions which do not vary from year
to year may be omitted in the ordinary Annual Report. Paragraph
5 of the Circular and the Appendix set-forth the minimum
requirements which are necessary, and this report as far as possible
conforms with those requirements.
Population.—The population of the district is estimated by
the Registrar General at 62,000. At the Census, the actual number
in the district was 61,314, but there is reason to believe that in some
districts the actual enumeration did not represent the whole of the
population. The Census of 1921, originally planned for the 24th;