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Public Health Department,
Town Hall,
Edmonton, N.9.
Telephone No: EDMonton 3000.
Ext. 16.
HIS WORSHIP THE MAYOR, ALDERMEN AND COUNCILLORS
OF THE BOROUGH OF EDMONTON
Your Worship, Ladies and Gentlemen,
The state of affairs on which I now report is satisfactory, but not
ideal. A good deal of the work of the Public Health Department depends on its
'field' workers, the Public Health Inspectors, and a study of the list opposite
shows that there was a shortage of Public Health Inspectors in Edmonton in 1958.
The advance towards a better communal health was, therefore, somewhat slower
than usual and the vital statistics are not quite so good as usual.
I can still say, however, that the health record of the community during
the year was a good one. The infant mortality was less than that for England and
Wales and about the same as that for Middlesex, the corrected death rate was less
than the death rate for England and Wales, and the birth rate, although lower than
the England and Wales and Middlesex birth rate, was higher than that for last year.
Despite this, the still-birth rate was less than that for last year. On the other
hand, there was a maternal death and the deaths from tuberculosis were nearly
double those for 1957; there is still room for improvement.
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