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TO THE CHAIRMAN AND MEMBERS OF
THE LEYTON URBAN DISTRICT COUNCIL.
Mr. Chairman, Madam and Gentlemen,
I have the honour to submit my Annual Report for the year
1923. It is framed on similar lines to that of last year.
I am pleased to report that, in spite of many adverse circumstances,
want of sufficient housing accommodation, unemployment,
etc., the health of the district has been uniformly good.
Our death-rate was 9.25.
Our Zymotic death-rate .18.
Our infantile mortality rate 45.53.
There have been fewer cases of Diphtheria and Scarlet Fever
even than last year, in spite of a considerable amount of overcrowding,
and not a single death occurred from Scarlet Fever.
Our infantile mortality rate is the lowest ever recorded. A
truly wonderful improvement in the number of deaths among
infants under one year of age has occurred in the last twenty
years. I find that in 1904 our infantile mortality rate was 138.
Again I have the pleasure of offering my best thanks to you
and to the Officials for your and their courtesy and assistance.
I am,
Mr. Chairman, Madam and Gentlemen,
Your obedient Servant,
J. FRANCIS TAYLOR.