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PREFACE
To the Mayor, Aldermen and Councillors of the
Metropolitan Borough of Woolwich.
Mr. Mayor, Ladies and Gentlemen,
I have the honour to present you with my 17th Annual
Report on the Health of Woolwich. The report is much abbreviated
owing to war conditions and the usual tables are omitted. They
have, however, been prepared and are kept for reference.
The general health of the Borough has been wonderfully
good in spite of the enforced change of diet and other conditions
caused by the war.
The reduction in infart mortality has not quite kept
pace with that of the general death rate, although for the first
time Woolwich had the lowest infant mortality of any metropolitan
borough. No doubt the favourable atmospheric conditions, and
the reduction in alooholism, as the result of the action of the
Liquor Control Board, are largely responsible for the low death
rate.
I have to acknowledge with thanks the support which you
have given to my proposals for improving the public health.
I am,
Mr. Mayor, Ladies and Gentlemen,
Your obedient Servant,
SIDNEY DAVIES.