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of general Public Health work has been fulfilled
with much good result. We are able to show
a rather reduced death rate, an only slightly increased
infantile mortality (compared with previous years), but
the unfavourable fact of a materially reduced birth rate.
Regrettable as this undoubtably is, it is no part of
my duty, with regard to its cause, to say more than
that Public Health Administration has nothing to do
with this decline. If you exclude the unusual amount
of Infectious Disease which prevailed during the last
quarter of the year, the opinion can be held that the
general health conditions of the Borough have been
well upheld. The work performed at the School
Clinic results in great benefit to health of many children
of school age, and this will become more manifest
as time goes on. I have also much pleasure in
recording my belief that the duties carried out by the
Female Sanitary Inspector, with reference to the
proper methods of rearing infants, has no small effect
in keeping down the infantile death rate, certainly in
normal seasons. I append, as is customary, a few
remarks in connection with the Department under the
control of the Borough Survevor, and I can testify
with satisfaction to the high state of efficiency with
which all services affecting the health and sanitary
condition of the Borough are carried out by this Department.
During the past year the amount of house
refuse collected and taken to the Destructor at South
Ealing amounted to the very large total of 13,886½
tons, and, in addition, 4,592 tons of pressed sludge
have been disposed of in the Destructor. At the
Northern Works, the two 90 feet diameter continuous
filters have been completed and are giving splendid
results.
Samples of effluent have been taken periodically,
both from there and the Southern Works, and in no
case has an adverse report been received, the whole of
the analyses, as certified by Professor Kenwood, being
satisfactory.
Negotiations in connection with the laying of the
Relief Surface Water Sewer from the River Brent in