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Public Health Department,
Town Hall,
Ealing, W.5.
To the Mayor, Aldermen and Councillors
of the Borough of Ealing.
Mr. Mayor, Ladies and Gentlemen,
I have the honour to submit the Annual Report for the Year
1933 on the health of the Borough and on the work of the Public
Health Department.
The Report includes the usual statistical tables and information
regarding the work performed and deals in detail with matters
which have been of special importance during the year or on
which special comment has been requested in the Circular issued
by the Ministry of Health regarding the contents and arrangement
of the Annual Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
Particular attention may be drawn to the birth-rate of 12.7
per thousand of population, which is the lowest on record for the
Borough, and to the unusual prevalence of scarlet fever. Three
developments of outstanding importance, which will greatly
improve the Council's public health service, were approved during
the year—the erection of a new Health Centre for the North
Greenford Ward, the extension of the Isolation Hospital, and the
provision of a new Maternity Hospital.
In submitting this Report I wish to take the opportunity of
expressing my appreciation of the excellent work performed by
the staff of the Public Health Department, who have shown a
deep and sustained interest in the municipal activities evolved for
the protection and improvement of the health of the community.
I am, Mr. Mayor, Ladies and Gentlemen,
Your obedient Servant,
THOMAS ORR,
Medical Officer of Health.
10th July, 1934.