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3
ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
Medical Officer of Health
FOR THE YEAR 1947.
August, 1948.
To the Mayor, Aldermen and Councillors of the
Borough of Hendon.
Mr. Mayor, Ladies and Gentlemen,
I have the honour to submit my seventeenth Annual
Report on the health of the Borough of Hendon for the year
1947, which in accordance with the instructions contained in
Ministry of Health Circular 170/47, has been prepared as an
interim report.
The Council will be aware that the National Health Service
Act, 1946, alters fundamentally the administration of the
health services, the County Councils and County Borough
Councils becoming the Local Health Authorities and the
Regional Hospital Boards becoming responsible for hospital
administration. The effect of this in so far as this Authority
is concerned is that the Maternity and Child Welfare Services
will be transferred to the Local Health Authority as will be
the scheme for immunisation against diphtheria; the Isolation
Hospital becoming vested in the Minister of Health and being
administered by the North-West Regional Hospital Board.
GENERAL HEALTH CONDITIONS.
VITAL STATISTICS:
The Registrar General's estimate of the population of the
Borough in June, 1947, was 158,670, as compared with 153,820
for the previous year and 115,682 at the last census in 1931.
The number of live births increased slightly, being 2,671
as compared with 2,651, giving a birth rate of 16.83 per thousand