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PREFACE.
To the Mayor, Aldermen and Councillors,
of the Metropolitan Borough of Woolwich.
Me. Mayor and Gentlemen,
I herewith present you with my Eighth Annual Report
on the Health of the Borough, including my Seventeenth
Annual Report on the Health of Plumstead.
The steady decline in serious illness and mortality
which has characterised the period of my service still continues.
The death-rate last year, for the first time in the
history of Woolwich, fell below 12 0 and the infantile deathrate
below 100.
The action of your Council in taking special measures
to deal with infant mortality and consumption has been
justified by the great reduction of deaths under both of
these heads.
The fact that 3,113 notices were served under the
Public Health Act, and that it was only necessary to take out
a summons in one case to compel compliance with the notice,
is evidence that the Public Health Department attains good
results with a minimum of friction.