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Borough of Twickenham.
Public Health Department,
Municipal Offices,
Twickenham.
July, 1935.
To the Mayor, Aldermen and Councillors
of the Borough of Twickenham.
Ladies and Gentlemen,
I have the honour to submit my Report on the health and sanitary conditions of the
Borough during the year 1934, and on the measures taken to safeguard and improve the health
of the inhabitants.
The town is rapidly increasing in size and now has a population of at least 45,000. The
erection of large blocks of flats appears to indicate a change in the attitude of the somewhat
better-off inhabitants towards the family house with its front and back gardens which has
been the characteristic type of suburban dwelling for generations.
While the established branches of the work of protecting the public health have been
continued, the establishment of a Clinic for immunization, especially of children, against
diphtheria marked a very important development in the campaign against disease, while the
arrangements which have been made to provide midwives for necessitous women and home
helps for those women who, during their confinement, have no one to attend to the domestic
duties of the home, are two measures which add materially to the effectiveness of the scheme
for safeguarding the health of the mothers.
A further indication of progress is shown in the completion of the scheme for the
formation of a Joint Hospital Board to unite Twickenham with five neighbouring authorities
for the purpose of providing one hospital for the reception of cases of infectious disease in place of
the disconnected small units which have served for this purpose in the past.
I am, Ladies and Gentlemen,
Your obedient servant.
Medical Officer of Health.