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To the
MAYOR, ALDERMEN AND COUNCILLORS
OF THE
BOROUGH OF SOUTHGATE.
Mr. Mayor, Ladies and Gentlemen,—
I have the honour to present to you the Annual Report for the
year 1933.
The year under review belongs, as before, to the inter-survey
period, and the Report therefore follows the lines of its two immediate
predecessors.
Several events of major importance occurred during 1933, the
most important being the granting of a Charter of Incorporation to
the district, with the subsequent birth of the new Borough of Southgate.
This, of course, did not affect the integral working of the
Public Health Department in any way, but it nevertheless added
dignity to the status of those employed by the Council, a fact which
was duly appreciated.
From a purely Public Health point of view, the outstanding
occurrences were the appearance of smallpox in the district in July,
and the outbreak of diphtheria towards the latter end of the year.
In spite of these unwelcome visitations, the incidence of infectious
disease has fallen, and the year has been quite satisfactory in this
respect.
In addition, several other matters of far-reaching Public Health
importance occurred; indeed the year has been one of considerable
activity in this direction. Principal among these were the setting
up, in March, of a clinic for immunisation against diphtheria;
alterations in the management, personnel and structure of the
Hospital; the movement for the purification of the water in the
Broomfield Park Swimming Lake, and the erection of two new
public conveniences. It is probably even more important and
gratifying to note that the Council have now under consideration
turther schemes for the appointment of an additional Health Visitor,
new dental and midwives' schemes, reconstruction of the Destructor,
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