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To the Chairman and Members of the Urban District
Council of Dagenham.
Ladies and Gentlemen,
I beg to submit my report on the health and sanitary circumstances
of the district for the year 1932.
Apart from an extensive outbreak of measles in the earlier
months of the year and the continuance of the epidemic of whooping
cough from the preceding year, there were no special circumstances
adversely affecting the health of the district.
Much of the information in this report has been drawn from
different agencies. Statistics of population have been taken from
the Registrar-General's report of the census returns for the County
of Essex. For many of the figures relating to the occupation of
the inhabitants and the extent of the transfers amongst the population
I am indebted to Terence Young, Esq., B.A., Secretary of
the Becontree Social Survey. The report of the nutrition of the
special class of child referred to is based on particulars obtained
by Dr. Ivor Jones, attached to the London School of Hygiene
and Tropical Medicine. This information was made accessible
by the courtesy of Dr. W. A. Bullough, County School Medical
Officer and the help of the Head Teachers of the various schools.
The Registrar's estimate for the mid-year population not being
to hand, the local estimate of 94,000 is used throughout as the
basis on which the birth, death and infectious disease rates are
calculated.
I desire to thank the members of the Council and administrative
staff for the help they have given me in the past year.
I have the honour to be,
Ladies and Gentlemen,
Your obedient servant,
E. W. CARYL THOMAS.
Public Health Offices,
Becontree Avenue,
Dagenham.
5th May, 1933.