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ANNUAL REPORT.
The Council House,
Mortlake, S.W.
The Chairman ami Members oj the Barnes Urban District Council.
Gentlemen,
I beg to submit my annual report for 1916. This year the
tables of Vital Statistics will be compiled by the Registrar
General. My duty, therefore, consists in giving you purely local
figures so far as 1 have them at my disposal, and also to make the
report a concise but complete record of the year's work for information
and future reference. Although we have been under.staffed,
1 trust that we have coped with the extra work thrown on the
department by recent legislation, to your satisfaction. The two
inspectors and the Health Visitor have worked consistently hard
through the year. Infectious disease is lower, the death rate and
infantile mortality are lower, and great efforts are being made to
preserve infant life, as the birth rate is also lower.
1 am, Gentlemen,
Your obedient servant,
January, 1917
B. C. Stevens.