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PREFACE.
To the Mayor, Aldermen and Councillors of the
Metropolitan Borough of Woolwich.
Me. Mayor and Gentlemen,
I have much pleasure in presenting you with my Sixth
Annual Report on the Health of the Borough and the means taken
for promoting the same.
It is satisfactory to find that though industrially the Borough
is suffering from acute depression, the Report indicates that this
» has had little effect on the general health, only one previous year
having had a lower death-rate.
It is certain that very many persons have suffered in health
and many have died as a result of poverty due to the loss of work,
but it is possible that such want and distress as have occurred are
less injurious to health than the excess which accompanied the
prosperous times of a few years ago.
Special consideration has been given in this report to the
following subjects:—(1) Measles, (nursing and school closure) ;
(2) Phthisis, (results of sanatorium treatment) ; (3) Notification of
Zymotic Enteritis ; (4) Milk from Wiltshire ; (5) Health of North
Woolwich; (6) Opening of Infants' Milk Depot; (7) Healthvisiting
re infant mortality (See Miss Fitz-Gerald's Report).
A reprint of the health rules,—"How to be Healthy"—is
added in the appendix. These are distributed in house-to-house
inspection.