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Public Health Department,
Town Hall,
Ealing, W. 5.
29th September, 1919.
Mr. Mayor, and Gentlemen,
I have the honour to submit to you the Annual Report for
the year 1918 on the Vital Statistics of the Borough, and on the
work of the Public Health Department.
The Report has still been kept within the reasonable limits
demanded by the need for economy, but I have found it desirable
to deal more fully, comparatively speaking, with the subjects
of Maternity and Child Welfare and Control of Influenza,
which have demanded so much attention during the past year.
The account of these I commend to your consideration.
In the report I desire to draw your attention to the small
number of cases of scarlet fever and of diphtheria compared with
previous years, the numbers in both instances being the lowest
for at least ten years, and to the low Infant Death-rate compared
with that for England and Wales.
I wish to take the opportunity in submitting this Report to
express my deep appreciation of the work performed during the
year of the whole of my staff.
I am, Mr. Mayor and Gentlemen,
Your obedient Servant,
THOMAS ORR.
To the Mayor, Aldermen and Burgesses
of the Borough of Ealing.