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Town Hall,
Ealing, W.5.
May 4th, 1922.
To the Mayor, Aldermen and. Councillors
of the Borough of Ealing.
Mr. Mayor and Gentlemen,
I beg to submit the Annual Report on the health
of the Borough for the year 1921.
The form of the report has been altered and the
scope reduced in accordance with Circular 269 of the
Ministry of Health. By this Circular an Annual Report
of a full and detailed character, called a Survey Report,
is required at intervals of five years and an Annual
Report of a more simple character for the other years.
The Annual Reports for 1919, 1920 and 1921 are
to be treated as Ordinary Reports, so that the next
Survey Report will be due for the year 1923.
This change no doubt will be welcomed by the
Council on account of the saving in the expenditure of
money, but it is also especially welcomed by your
Medical Officer of Health on account of the saving
in the expenditure of time. In the past the time
devoted to the Annual Report, entailing as it did
much extra time after the usual day's toil, has appeared
to be out of all proportion to the small results achieved
by its publication. The new requirements of the
Ministry will not reduce in the slightest the value of
the Annual Reports.
I am, Mr. Mayor and Gentlemen,
Your obedient Servant,
THOMAS ORR,
Medical Officer of Health.