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To the MAYOR, ALDERMEN and COUNCILLORS of the
BOROUGH of SOUTHGATE.
Mr. Mayor, Ladies and Gentlemen,
I beg to present to you the Annual Report of
the Medical Officer of Health for the year 1942 As
Dr. Harvey did not join the Forces until early in
January 1943, the work recorded in this report was done
under his administration, and my only connection with
it is to submit the Report.
The Report is a short one, in accordance with
the instructions of the Ministry of Health, and gives
little more than a bare record of the activities of the
Council's Medical Services and some statistics of the
results achieved. The record is a "satisfactory one,
and the chief vital statistics show improvement on the
corresponding figures for the previous year. The Birth
Rate is higher and the Death Rate, Infantile Mortality
Rate and Maternal Mortality Rate all lower. The
incidence of infectious disease was considerably lower
than in the previous year, and there was no serious
epidemic at any period of the year.
Good use appears to have been made by the
community of the health services provided by the Council,
and there is to my mind no evidence in the Report of any
deterioration in the general health such as one might
naturally expect after three years of war .
I am, Mr. Mayor, Ladies and Gentlemen,
Your obedient Servant,
M. MANSON.
Acting Medical Officer of Health.
Southgate Town Hall, October,
N. 13. 1943.