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Borough of Brentford and Chiswick.
Public Health Department,
Town Hall, Chiswick, W. 4.
To the Mayor, Aldermen and Councillors of the
Borough of Brentford and Chiswick.
Ladies and Gentlemen,
I beg to submit to you my Annual Report on the health of
the Borough and on the School Medical Service for 1938.
I regret that the issue of this Report is very late and must
plead the great amount of extra work thrown on the department
by Civil Defence requirements.
I may state, however, that the actual work in the social
services and the personal attention to the school children and
essential public health work have not been curtailed.
It will be noticed in the table of Vital Statistics that
conditions compare very favourably . with those of previous
years. The Birth Rate has increased from 12.12 to 13.26, the
Death Rate is slightly lower, viz. 11.14 as against 11.74 in 1937,
and the Infantile Mortality Rate shows a marked decrease from
52 to 42.
As regards the clinics, the opening of the new Health
Centre in Brentford by Lord Horder in July was an outstanding
forward step in this work. This has made all the more obvious
the urgent necessity for providing new clinics for the Chiswick
end of the Borough. There is no doubt that the rectification of
this defect is being delayed by the International situation.