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Report of the
Medical Officer of Health.
Municipal Offices,
Kingston-upon-Thames,
April. 1927.
To the Corporation of Kingston-upon-Thamf.s.
Ladies and Gentlemen,
I have the honour to present my Annual Report for
the year 1926.
Circular 743 (Ministry of Health) directs that the Annual
Report for 1926 will be an Ordinary Report, that is, a report
of a more simple character than the full Survey Repprt which
the Medical Officer of Health was asked to prepare last
year.
The chief features of the year have been the low incidence
of Scarlet Fever and Diphtheria, the undertaking of
Orthopædic treatment for Crippled Infants under school
age, a small outbreak of Enteric Fever, and the regrettable
occurrence of a series of cases of Puerperal Fever.
Special reports on these two latter subjects were prepared
and are embodied in this Annual Report.
The duties of Meat Inspection continue to be very heavy
and occupy a great part of the time of the Sanitary Inspector.
I thank Mr. H. T. Perry, your Chief Sanitary Inspector,
and the staff of the Public Health Department for their
willing assistance at all times.
I am, Ladies and Gentlemen,
Your obedient servant,
E. W. MATTHEWS,
Medical Officer of Health.