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Report of the
Medical Officer of Health.
Municipal Offices,
Kingston-upon-Thames,
April, 1926.
To the Corporation of Kingston-upon-Thamf.s.
Gentlemen,
I have the honour to present my Annual Report for
the year 1925.
Circular 269 (Ministry of Health) directs that Annual
Reports of a full and detailed character (referred to in this
Circular as Survey Reports) will normally be required at
intervals of not more than five years. The Annual Reports
of 1919 and 1920 will be treated as constituting the first of
the series of Survey Reports.
Circular 540 of the 18th December, 1924, intimated that
the Annual Report of the Medical Officer of Health for 1925
should be a Survey Report.
For reasons of economy the Report has been kept as
short as possible, and no doubt there are many omissions,
but an effort has been made to refer to the main activities.
The period 1921-25 has been one of steady progress,
and when looked back upon must be regarded with satisfaction.
Just prior to this period the Public Health Department
had moved from the Municipal Offices to Clattern Lodg-e,
which is adjacent.
In November, 1923, the Sanitary and Drainage Committee
was reconstructed, and renamed the Public Health
Committee, and the Maternity and Child Welfare Committee
became a sub-committee of the Public Health Committee.