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Public Health Department,
White Hart Lane (Old) School,
Wood Green, N.22.
September 20th, 1948.
To the Mayor, Aldermen and Councillors,
of the BoroucJh of Wood Green.
Mr. Mayor, Ladies and Gentlemen,
I beg to present to you my Annual Report as Medical Officer
of Health for the year 1947.
The year has again been a good one so far as the health of the
community is concerned. Infectious disease has not been unduly
prevalent, and for the eighth year in succession no death from
diphtheria has occurred in the borough. The Birth Rate is the
highest recorded since 1920, and the Infantile Mortality Rate, the
lowest, with one exception, in the history of Wood Green.
As a result of the coming into force of the National Health Act,
1946, on July 5th, 1948, this report deals for the last time with a
full year's work of the Maternity and Child Welfare Committee,
and I have included in the body of the report, a short account of
the development of this service in Wood Green.
During the year the Public Health Committee lost one of its
oldest members, and a former Chairman, by the death of Alderman
Tudor Rhys. Alderman Rhys was always keenly interested in the
work of the Health Department and was for many years one of the
Council's representatives on the Joint Isolation Hospital Committee,
in the work of which he always took a prominent part. Tribute
has been paid elsewhere to the value of the services Alderman Rhys
rendered to Wood Green, and I wish to take this opportunity of
adding my tribute on behalf of the Health Department.