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To the Mayor, Aldermen and Councillors of the Metropolitan Borough
of Stoke Newington.
Ladies and Gentlemen,
The Minister of Health's object in calling for this survey is to
secure that each Medical Officer of Health shall review the progress
made in the Public Health circumstances of his district at the end
of each five-yearly period, with the object of making suggestions
upon any further developments or readjustments of the administrative
work of public health which seem to the Medical Officer
of Health to be indicated as desirable.
It is obvious that in the small Borough of Stoke Newington
and for a period during which the strictest economy has had to be
practised, but little progress in the development of public health
activities has to be recorded; but a critical review of that work
during the past five years serves the useful purpose of indicating
certain directions in which progress could and should be made as
soon as circumstances permit. It is more especially in this lastmentioned
respect that the brief report which I now present may
claim your interest.
I am, Ladies and Gentlemen,
Your obedient servant,
HENRY KENWOOD.