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ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH
FOR THE YEAR 1915.
Council Offices,
Acton,
London, W.
To the Chairman and Members
of the Urban District Council of Acton.
Miss Smee and Gentlemen,
I beg to submit my Annual Report for the year 1915. For
obvious reasons, many of the details usually inserted have been
omitted and as much as possible of the report has been given in the
form of tables.
Some explanations are necessary.
The civil population is estimated at 58,238. It will be observed
that this is a reduction as compared with the population of 1914.
The following memorandum of the Registrar General will explain
the method which has been adopted and the reason for its adoption.
The war has made it impossible to adhere to the methods of
estimation of local and national populations hitherto in use. Men of
military age have been largely drafted to military training centres
or sent abroad with the army, and the remainder of the male adult
population has migrated on an unprecedented scale into areas
other than those in which it was enumerated at the last census.