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To the Mayor, Aldermen and Councillors of the
Borough of Dagenham.
Mr. Mayor, Ladies and Gentlemen,
I beg to submit an Interim Report upon the Health
Services of the Borough for the year 1030.
This report is drawn up in accordance with the
requirements of Circular 2067 of the Ministry of
Health, dated 10th July, 1040, which states that, in
view of the increasing pressure of work in the Public
Health Department of Local Authorities, and the need
for strict economy in the use of paper, the Minister
considers that Interim Reports only should be made
for the year, and that the subject-matter should be
curtailed to certain specified items. The Minister
points out, however, that suitable arrangements should
be made for useful preservation of all records, including
the statistics to be supplied by the Registrar-General, in
order that after the termination of the war a report
could be made dealing more fully with the period from
the beginning of 1030 to the end of the last complete
year, giving separate statistics for each year in order
that the annual records may, as far as practicable, be
continuous and complete.
There has again been a slight decrease in the birth
rate, viz.:—from 18.06 to 17.61 per 1,000 of the
estimated resident population at mid-1030. The death
rate has fallen from 6.0 to 5.06. The infant mortality