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To the Mayor, Aldermen and Councillors of the
Metropolitan Borough of Chelsea.
Mr, Mayor, Ladies and Gentlemen,
I have the honour to submit my Annual Report on the health
and sanitary conditions of the Borough during 1947. In
accordance with instructions received from the Ministry of
Health, the report has again been prepared in an abridged form.
The population of the Borough was estimated by the
Registrar-General to be 51,000, as compared with 45,740 in 1946.
The birth rate (19.0) was the highest since 1920. The
death rate (12.0) and the infant mortality rate of 44 per 1,000
live births showed no variation of the rates for 1946,
The health of the population was satisfactory.
There was an increase in the total incidence of notifiable
infectious disease, the total number of notification being 776,
as compared with 686 in 1946.
Diphtheria immunisation was maintained at a high level
throughout the year.
Maternity and Child Welfare work has steadily increased in
extent and usefulness. The attendances by expectant and nursing
mothers at the ante-natal clinic totalled 2,862.
Close attention was devoted tc the supervision of food
supplies.
I have again to express my appreciation of the work of the
staff of the Public Health Department.
In conclusion, I should like to thank members of the Council
for the support and sympathetic consideration always extended
to me, and for their attention to the problems which it has been
my duty to place before them,
I am,
Mr, Mayor, Ladies and Gentlemen,
Your obedient Servant,
W.H.L. MCCARTHY, M.D., D.P.H.,
Medical Officer of Health.
Public Health Department,
Town Hall,
Chelsea, S.W.3.
July, 1948,
P.T.O,