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Municipal Offices,
Dyne Road, Kilburn, N.W.,
29th February, 1916.
To the Willesden Urban District Council—
The Local Sanitary Authority.
The Local Education Authority.
I beg to submit herewith the 40th Annual Health Report
for Willesden for the year 1915. This report includes:—
1. The 40th Annual Report on the Health and Sanitary
Condition of the District.
2. The 8th Annual Report on the Health of Children
attending the Public Elementary Schools.
3. The 24th Annual Hospital Report.
Owing to the large number of the staff of the Health
Department on Military Service as shown in Appendix F
this report has been curtailed, and only such tables are
reproduced as are necessary for the continuity of the Health
work of the Local Authority.
Sanitary Work.
The number of occupiable houses in Willesden at midsummer,
1915, was 23,533.
The work of dust collection has been considerably
hampered by the shortage of labour which has been experienced
everywhere owing to the circumstances of the times.
9,861 loads have been removed in 1915 as compared with
10,083 in 1914.
It is unsatisfactory to record that during the year in
question 1,61-1 complaints have been received from householders
as against 255 in 1914, and an average of 173
during the fourteen years, 1901 to 1914.