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COUNTY BOROUGH OF CROYDON.
ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH
AND
SCHOOL MEDICAL OFFICER
For the Year 1936.
To the Chairman and Members of the Public Health
Committee.
Ladies and Gentlemen,
1 have the honour to present herewith my ninth Annual
Report, being the thirty-seventh of the series, dealing with the
health of Croydon, and the various branches of the work carried
out by the Council under the various Public Health, Housing,
and Mental Deficiency Acts. There is also incorporated my
report to the Education Committee as School Medical Officer.
lhe delay in the presentation of this report is regretted.
Infortunately, the increasing number of routine duties laid upon
medical officers of health under recent social legislation, and the
consequently large number of supplementary reports to Committees
which have been called for, have left very little time to
devote to the task of compilation of the Annual Report which all
medical officers of health are called upon to make.
lhe form of report follows the same lines as previously. It
is divided into 14 sections, including the report on the School
Medical Service, each section dealing with a particular phase of
the work. This has been done for the convenience of readers
who, though not interested in the whole report, desire to gain
information of the work upon some special subject.