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PREFACE.
To the Mayor, Aldermen, and Councillors,
of the Metropolitan Borough of Woolwich.
Me. Mayor and Gentlemen,
I have pleasure in presenting you with my Twelfth Annual
Report on the Health of the Borough, which includes the
Twenty-first Annual Report on the Health of Plumstead.
It is particularly satisfactory, after twenty-two years of
public service, to be able to report that the Death Rate of
the Borough has been reduced to two-thirds and the Infantile
Death Rate to little more than one-half what it was when the
Plumstead Vestry appointed me Medical Officer of Health
of the larger part of the Borough.
The chief feature of the year was the inauguration of
Sanatorium benefit under the Insurance Act; the work
entailed by this part of the Act naturally fell to the Medical
Officer of Health, and added vastly to his duties and responsibilities,
although, so far, his work as Tuberculosis Officer has
not been officially recognised.