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PUBLIC OFFICES,
ENFIELD.
March, 1913.
Medical Officer of Health's
ANNUAL REPORT
for 1912.
To the Urban District Council of Enfield.
Gentlemen,
I have the honour to submit to you my Annual
Report for the year 1912, which I trust you will find satisfactory.
The Report of your Sanitary Inspector, Mr. A. J. Munro, giving
particulars of the work done in the Sanitary Department, is also
incorporated.
In accordance with the Memorandum of the Local Government
Board as to the Annual Reports of Medical Officers of
Health, which inevitably leads to a certain amount of repetition
each year, I propose in the first instance to give some particulars
of the physical features and general character of the District and
condition of its population.
Enfield is one of the largest parishes in England, being seven
and a half miles long from East to West, and about three and a
half miles from North to South, and comprises about 20 square
miles. It is situated ten miles North of London, and is bounded
on the North by Hertfordshire, on the East by Essex, on the