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PUBLIC HEALTH REPORT
For 1904.
To the Chairman and Members of the Willesden Urban
District Council.
Gentlemen,
I have the honour to present to you the 29th Annual
Report on the Health and Sanitary Conditions of Willesden. The
Report embraces a somewhat wider field than that surveyed in
previous reports. The rapid growth of the district, and the
changed conditions under which modern houses are erected, are
together, shifting the incidence of the factors which in the main
determine the public health in Willesden.
With the greater part of the district a modern town, erected
in accordance with the latest legislative pronouncements as to
sanitary housing, the relative importance of housing conditions
upon the health of Willesden must necessarily decline. Comparatively
speaking, and leaving out of account the older portions
of the district, it must be admitted that the problems of preventive
medicine in Willesden are now less concerned with the dwellings
and more with their inmates than ever before. Not that anything
approaching a sanitary house has yet been attained for the majority
of people, even in brand new districts. Drainage for the most
part is satisfactory; water supply is practically pure; ground air