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PREFACE
Public Health Department,
Town Hall,
Edmonton, N.9.
His Worship the Mayor, Aldermen and Councillors
of the Borough of Edmonton.
Your Worship, Ladies and Gentlemen,
I have the honour to present my Annual Report for the year
1954 on the health and sanitary circumstances of the Borough.
The Report is compiled in accordance with the requirements of
the Ministry of Health Circular 28/54.
Death Rate.—There is a fall in the Death Rate which is
probably influenced by the reduction in the Infantile Mortality.
The Adult Rate remaining much the same as previously.
Birth Rate.—Shows a slight increase on 1953, which indicates
that the slow decline so characteristic of previous years
may be finished.
Infantile Mortality Rate—15.82. This is a considerable
decrease on the previous year and shows that with all the duties
which your officers have now to face, interest in the children's
welfare has not ceased.
Maternal Mortality Rate—.77. Remains low, but we have
not succeeded in having the clean slate that we had in 1953.
As usual, the new year is ushered in with consideration of
what happened in the previous year and new resolutions to make
further progress in the year that lies ahead.
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