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PUBLIC OFFICES,
ENFIELD.
May 31st, 1916.
Medical Officer of Health's
ANNUAL REPORT
FOR 1915.
To the Urban District Council of Enfield.
Gentlemen,
I have the honour to submit to you my Annual Report
for the year 1915, which, owing to the depletion of the Staff in the
Office, is rather belated, but which I trust you will find satisfactory.
The Report of your Sanitary Inspector, Mr. A. J. Munro, giving
particulars of the work done in tne Sanitary Department, is also
incorporated.
As in a circular issued in December 1915, the Local
Government Board stated that they considered that many of
the usual details inserted in the Annual Reports, such as a description
of the district and of the water supply, sewerage and sewage
disposal, etc., may be omitted, and that the report may be confined
to a record of what has taken place during the year, I propose to
curtail this report very considerably as compared to former years.
POPULATION.
The number of inhabited houses in the district in June 30th,
1915, was 11,948, and as it was found at the last Census that the
average number of inhabitants to each house was 5.12, I estimate
the population on that date as being 61,173, although I have no
doubt that this very considerably underestimates the number of
people in the district in consequence of the War.