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Telephone : Public Health Department,
PROspect 3443. Municipal Offices,
Sheen Lane, S.W.I4.
To the Mayor, Aldermen and Councillors of the Borough of Barnes.
Mr. Mayor, Ladies and Gentlemen,
I have the honour to present the Annual Report of the Medical
Officer of Health for the year 1962, upon the Sanitary Circumstances,
Sanitary Administration and Vital Statistics of the Borough.
The form of the Report is in accordance with the instructions of
the Minister of Health, and special mention is made of certain items
at the Minister's request.
A full staff throughout the year has allowed a great deal of
preventive work to be undertaken, and the statistical tables show that
the health of the residents has remained at the usual high level. Apart
from the rather troublesome outbreaks of mild dysentery amongst
school children, the number of cases of notifiable infectious diseases
is quite remarkably low.
I am indebted to Mr. W. L. Leach, Chief Public Health Inspector,
whose report on the Sanitary Circumstances of the District is included,
and to Mr. J. A. Brown, Chief Clerk, who has dealt with the Vital
Statistics and has prepared the Report for the printers.
Finally, I wish to express my thanks to the Chairman and
Members of the Health Committee for their support throughout the
year, to my colleagues in other departments, and to all members of the
staff of the Public Health Department for their unfailing co-operation.
I am, Mr. Mayor, Ladies and Gentlemen,
Your obedient servant,
ERIC PEREIRA,
Medical Officer of Health
July 1963.