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12, Welbeck Street,
Cavendish Square,
London, W.
January, 1909.
To the Chairman and Members of the Urban District Council
of Beckenkam.
Gentlemen, —
In compliance with the Regulations of the Local Government
Board, I have the honour to submit my 18th Annual
Report on the Health and Vital Statistics of the Urban
District of Beckenham for the year 1908.
The Report of the Chief Sanitary Inspector, which this
year appears under a separate cover, gives in detail the work
of the Public Health Department in matters appertaining to
Sanitary Administration. The general health of the District
is about the same as that of the preceding year.
But the Infectious Diseases are somewhat in excess of
that reported to me during 1907. Thus Scarlet Fever was in
evidence during the month of March, twenty-three cases being
notified, but the disease could not be characterised as epidemic.
Diphtheria also increased somewhat, there being 66 cases
during the first half of the year, but from that time the
disease declined, and in October, November and December
there were only 8 cases in all.
Measles also occasioned trouble, and I closed the Bromley
Road Schools for two weeks on that account.
Ten deaths were registered as being caused by Pulmonary
Tuberculosis of people varying in age from 28 to 56 years,