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to safeguard the health of the people—it is only within recent
year that Health has come .again to the forefront of public
opinion and Local Government. It appears, by recent declaration
of Parliament, to be again in the melting-pot. New large
Health Authorities are to be formed whereby Poor Law,
National Health Insurance, and Public Health will be amalgamated
under the one administration. However necessarv
this may appear to be, and I believe it is probably agreed
that too much overlapping of services does exist, there is a
distinct danger of the efficient but sometimes small authority
being swamped in an authority which will, in great probability,
lose touch with the unit of population. It is on this
individuality that the whole success of Public Health has
resulted—to destroy it will, I fear, defeat our ends.
LIST OF APPENDICES.
1. Summary of Statistics.
II. 1925 Comparison Statistics.
III. Causes of Deaths, 1925.
IV. Causes of Infant Deaths, 1925—Age groups.
V. Analysis of Infant Deaths, 1921-1925.
VI. Analyses of age of Infant Deaths and Maternal
Deaths, 1910-14 and 1921-25.
VII. Summary of Sanitary Inspector's Visits.
VIII. Summary of Nuisances abated.
IX. Return of Notifiable Infectious Diseases, 1925, in
wards—giving Attack Rate and Death Rate, etc.
X. Return in age groups of new cases of Tuberculosis,
notified 1925.
Xa. Return of Ophthalmia Neonatorum.
XI. Summary of Health Visiting, 1925.
XII. Summary of Attendances at Welfare Centres, 1925.
XIII. Factories, Workshops and Workplaces Inspections.
XIV. Housing Statistics, 1925.