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BOROUGH OF ROMFORD
To His Worship the Mayor, Aldermen, and Councillors of the
Borough of Romford.
Mr. Mayor, Ladies, and Gentlemen,
I have the honour, herewith, to present to yon this, my Annual
Report on the Health of the district for the year 1944.
This is the Eleventh Report in the series, since I was appointed
your Medical Officer of Health, and it is drawn up in accordance
with the requirements of Articles 6(3), and 17(5) of the Sanitary
Officers (Outside London) Regulations, 1935, as modified by Circular
49/45 of the Ministry of Health, dated 19th March, 1945.
This Circular, like those of previous war years, states that the
Report for 1944 should again be an Interim one, owing to the
necessity of economising in paper.
The Minister of Health in his Report for the year ended 31st
March, 1944, states that consistently throughout the war the vital
statistics of England and Wales have been amongst the most unexpected
and cheering items of news on the home front, and that he
has found it possible to report that the health of the nation was
maintained into the fifth year of war. What applies to the Country
as a whole is equally true of this District, and the statistics for the
first part of the sixth year of the war appear to be as encouraging.
I have much pleasure in recording that for the first time in any
one year there was no death in the district of a mother, arising out
of confinement, although one maternal death occurred outside the
district, and has to be recorded in this area, under the arrangements
for the recording of transferable deaths.
As before, my best thanks go to all members of my staff, who
have assisted in the work of the Department, and in the compilation
of this report; to my fellow officials for their kind assistance during
the year; and to all the Members of the Council, who have shown
sympathetic consideration of our difficulties, and a continued interest
in the well-being of the inhabitants of this town.
I am,
Mr. Mayor, Ladies, and Gentlemen,
Your obedient servant,
JAMES B. SAMSON,
Public Health Department, Medical Officer of Health.
Town Hall,
Romford,
March, 1945.