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7
ANNUAL REPORT
of the
Medical Officer of Health for the Borough of
Barking, in the County of Essex, for the Year
ended 31 st December, 1945 (War Edition).
Public Health Department,
Barking, Essex.
01
November, 1946.
To the Mayor, Aldermen and Councillors of the
Borough of Barking.
Mr. Mayor, Ladies and Gentlemen,
This is a book about the health of the people of
Barking ; mostly, it will have to do with the health
of the people during the year 1945, but here and there
in particular, and almost throughout the whole of the
book in general, I shall have in mind the health of the
people of Barking during the last eighteen years and
more that I have been in Barking.
It seems to me desirable I should write this book in
this way because today we stand at the end of an age.
The Education Act has altered Local Government
fundamentally throughout the country and the National
Health Bill foreshadows still further, if not more
fundamental, changes in Local Government.