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Croydon Rural District Council.
HEALTH REPORT FOR 1914.
Gentlemen,
In presenting my Report for the year 1914, I desire at
once to place on record my keen appreciation of the services
and of the loyalty of the Sanitary Inspectors, and of my
personal Clerk—Mr. S. E. Crisp—as without that hearty
co-operation it would have been well-nigh impossible for my
duties as Medical Officer of Health to be satisfactorily carried
out, as I was called up on active service in September, and
consequently have been away from the Office during the last
three months of the year under review.
The general condition of the Croydon Rural District is
very good as is evidenced by not only the low death rate now
recorded of 10 '2 per thousand of population, but mainly by
the very low average of during the last ten years.
The care of newly-born and of all notified cases of
Tuberculosis have been most efficiently supervised by your
Health Visitor—Miss E. M. Pleister. Her unfailing tact, and
practical knowledge have been of the greatest value in
ameliorating the conditions under which, unfortunately, so
many people have to live.
I desire also to place on record the help which I have
received from all members of the Council and from each
individual member of the general staff of the Croydon Rural
District Council during the many years in which I have been
associated with them.
I am, Gentlemen,
Your obedient Servant,
C. M. FEGEN,
Medical Officer of Health.
4th February, 1915,