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TO THE CHAIRMAN AND MEMBERS OF
THE LEYTON URBAN DISTRICT COUNCIL.
Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen,
I beg to submit my Annual Report on the Health and
General Sanitary circumstances of the District for the year 1911.
The birth-rate continues to diminish.
The death-rate and infantile mortality rate are both higher
than they have been for some years, chiefly owing to the exceptionally
hot and dry summer, which caused an increased number of
deaths from Diarrhoea among infants. An epidemic of Measles
in the spring also contributed to this increased mortality.
These undesirable features were by no means confined to
Leyton, many other towns suffering more severely than we did.
By means of the two Orders issued by the Local Government
Board the notification of all cases of Pulmonary Tuberculosis is
now made compulsory.
You have extended your powers under the provisions of the
Infectious Disease (Notification) Act by making epidemic Cerebrospinal
Meningitis, Acute Polio-Encephalitis, and Acute PolioMyelitis
notifiable diseases.
I have from year to year brought forward instances occurring
in this District illustrating the necessity for providing adequate
facilities for more thorough methods of meat inspection. These
facilities will never be obtained until Public Abattoirs are compulsory
throughout the kingdom. This year's Report contains
further instances emphasising that necessity.
I have again to thank all the Members and Officials of the
Council for the many acts of kindness and consideration they have
extended to me during the year.
I am,
Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen,
Your obedient Servant,
J. FRANCIS TAYLOR.