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To the Chairman and Members
of the
Edmonton Urban District Council.
Ladies and Gentlemen,
I beg to present to you my Report for the year 1921 on the Sanitary
Conditions and Vital Statistics for the Urban District of Edmonton.
My predecessor resigned office on July 31st, 1921, and I commenced duties
as Medical Officer of Health, School Medical Officer, and Supervisor of the
Maternity and Child Welfare Clinic on November 1st. Dr. Strong, the
Assistant School Medical Officer, carried out the duties of the combined post
in the interval, and received, by resolution, the thanks of the Council for his
services.
The Report is made out on the lines suggested by the Ministry of Health
in Circular 269, dated 28th December, 1921. Medical Officers of Health
are asked to prepare a Report of a more simple character—referred to as an
Ordinary Report—by omitting details as to conditions which do not vary
from year to year, and the curtailment of the information asked for in certain
years. It is hoped by this means to effect a reduction both in the time required
by Medical Officers of Health for preparing the Reports, and in the
cost of printing them, without detriment to the principal objects which the
Reports are designed to serve.
Annual Reports of a full and detailed character—referred to as Survey
Reports—will normally be required at intervals of not more than five years.
H. W. HARDING,
Medical Officer of Health.