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[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Ruislip]
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Annual Report
OF THE
Medical Officer of Health,
1913.
To the Chairman and Members of the Urban District
Council of Ruislip-Northwood.
Gentlemen,
I beg to submit to you my ninth Annual Report
upon the Sanitary condition of your District.
As the result of an Inquiry held on January 33rd,
1904, powers were granted by the Local Government
Board for the conversion of the Parish of Ruislip (at that
time a part of the Rural District of Uxbridge) into an
Urban District under the Control of the Ruislip-Northwood
Urban District Council.
I was appointed Medical Officer of Health on January
1st, 1905.
General Characteristic of the District.
The Ruislip-Northwood Urban District is situated
at the North-West extremity of the County of Middlesex,
bounded on the North by the Watford Rural District in