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Borough of Twickenham.
Public Health Department,
Municipal Offices,
Twickenham.
June, 1936.
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 1935, and on the measures taken to safeguard and improve the health
of the inhabitants.
The Registrar General estimated that the population of the town had reached 46,710 in
June, 1935. It is probable that Twickenham will have become a town of 50,000 inhabitants
by the time that this report is published.
The erection of large blocks of residential flats has continued simultaneously with the
building of many separate houses, while the number and character of the shops which have
been built, or the building of which is contemplated in the near future, indicates that Twickenham
has come to be recognised as the most important Centre in this part of the Thames Valley.
The remarkably low figures of the general death rate, the death rate of infants under one
year of age and the incidence of infectious disease, are indications that the year under review
was a remarkably healthy one.
The transfer of the hospital treatment of cases of infectious disease to the Richmond
and South Middlesex Joint Hospital Board took place in June, and in consequence Twickenham
no longer has its own separate hospital for infectious disease.
A record of the work carried out in connection with Housing, Sanitation, Maternity
and Child Welfare, the control of infectious disease, the supervision of foods and the many other
aspects of the work of caring for the health of the public will be found in the report which
follows.
I am, Ladies and Gentlemen,
Your obedient servant,
Geroage .h. Dieponth.
Medical Officer of Health.