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10
Metrolitan Borough of Hackney
REPORT OF THE MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH FOR
THE YEAR 1930.
Public Health Department,
Town Hall, Hackney, E.8.
To the Mayor, Aldermen and Councillors
of the Metropolitan Borough of Hackney.
Mr. Mayor, Ladies and Gentlemen,
I have the honour to submit, in accordance with the instructions
of the Ministry of Health, the Annual Report on the health of the
Metropolitan Borough of Hackney for the year 1930.
The Ministry of Health has given instructions that the Annual
Report for 1930 shall be in some measure a "Survey Report,"
describing the measure of progress and the extent and character
of the changes made during the preceding five years in the Public
Health Services of the Borough, "together with any further action
of importance contemplated by the Local Authority or considered
desirable by the Medical Officer of Health."
There is from time to time mention in the Press of proposals
for setting up Governmental enquiries, "axe" committees and
other measures directed towards national economy. I am not,
of course, able to estimate what the Borough can afford in the
way of public health expenditure, but I am entirely convinced
that the present expenditure in this Borough is not only necessary
but is really inadequate if viewed solely from the point of view
of the preventable disease, suffering and ill-health in the Borough,
and that is the only point of view with which I am concerned as
Medical Officer of Health.
The aims which the Public Health Services have in view are
that every useful member of the community shall have a healthy
home, that food shall be clean and wholesome, that an adequate
medical service, including specialists' services, shall be available