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Public Health Department,
Town Hall, N.15.
1st October, 1949.
His Worship the Mayor, Aldermen and Councillors
of the Borough.
Mr. Mayor, My Lord, My Lady, Ladies and Gentlemen,
I have the honour to submit my Annual Report on the health
of the Borough for the year ended 31st December, 1948.
The population of Tottenham, as estimated by the RegistrarGeneral,
is 130,000, an increase of 860 over 1947. In 1939 the
figure was 144,000.
The number of deaths amongst children under one year of age
per 1,000 live births, was a record low figure of 23.7 compared with
27.3 for the previous year.
As a result of the National Health Service Act, 1946, which
came into operation on July 5th, 1948, the maternity and child
welfare and ambulance services of the Borough were taken over
during the year by the Middlesex County Council. Together with
school health, these services have become merged, for the purpose of
local day-to-day administration, with those hitherto administered
by the Hornsey Borough Council, forming one of ten County Areas.
The Borough health department has continued an all-out effort
to make up for time lost in the war years in remedying sanitary
defects and generally improving the standards of housing in the
district.
In the sphere of health education, special attention has been
given during the year to a campaign for clean methods of food
handling.
I have the honour to be,
Your obedient Servant,
G. Hamilton Hogben,
Medical Officer of Health.