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confidently hope for further diminution of preventable
diseases; but the progress in the future cannot be as great
as in the past unless some elixir of life is discovered.
In the last five years the infantile death rate has fallen
more than the general death rate and there is ground for
hoping that Infant Mortality can be much further reduced.
In the Introduction to this Report will be found a
summary of a most interesting report on the Health of
Woolwich written more than 60 years ago by Mr. Rawlinson,
a Government Commissioner.
I have again to thank you for the careful attention you
have given to my reoommendations, and also to the personal
sympathy extended to me on the occasion of my anxious
experiences as a Prisoner of War in Germany and my safe
return from that unhappy country.
I am,
Mr. Mayor, Ladies and Gentlemen,
Your obedient Servant,
SIDNEY DAVIES.