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Public Health Department,
Town Hall,
Edmonton, N.9.
HIS WORSHIP THE MAYOR, ALDERMEN AND COUNCILLORS
OP THE BOROUGH OF EDMONTON
Your Worship, Ladies and Gentlemen,
This is a report on the work of the Public Health Department during 1957. Though I have
prepared and presented the report, it is a report on the work of the department under three
different officers
For the first five months of 1957 Dr Regan remained in charge of the department; from
1st June to the 14th August inclusive, the Deputy Medical Officer of Health, Dr. Goggin, was
in sole charge, and I myself became your Medical Officer of Health on the 15th August.
The health record of the community during the year was a good one and so far as any credit
is due to the Chief of the Public Health Department for this, the main credit must go to
Dr, Regan and Dr. Goggin. When you turn to the tables that follow you will see that the
Infantile Mortality was very low, and the Death Rate, even when corrected to allow for the ways
in which Edmonton's population differs from that of the Country at large, was below the National
level. The deaths from Tuberculosis were few and not one Mother died in Childbirth, These are
signs of health and show what good work has been carried out during the past 20 years or so.
Much still remains to be done, however, and I shall now comment on the Social and Vital Statistics
in detail.
PART I - SOCIAL AND VITAL STATISTICS
The statistical tables follow overleaf. Some may wish to digest them before turning to my
comments. Others, I expect, will turn to my comments on Page 12 turning back to the tables as
occasion demands.
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