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Metropolitan Borough of Hackney
REPORT OF THE MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH
FOR THE YEAR 1944
Public Health Department,
Town Hall, Hackney, E.8.
To the Mayor, :Aldermen and Councillors
of the Metropolitan Borough of Hackney.
This is the twenty-fifth Annual Report I have submitted to
the Council. Although the Report must still be abridged in
accordance with the instructions of the Minister of Health, I have
included some information with regard to the health services available
in the Borough during the year 1920 which was the year I took
over the appointment of Medical Officer of Health to the Borough.
I make no apology for the few personal references in this
part of the Report since tihey are presented not so much for presentday
as for future readers as, for instance, my successors in the
appointment or of a similar appointment since there may be changes
in the structure of local government in London.
Reports of earlier Medical Officers of Health of this Borough
and of those in similar appointments elsewhere I have found of
great interest and value. I have often wondered what the writers
felt with regard to their mode of life and whether they would
like to repeat the experience. The appointment of a Medical
Officer of Health in this part of the County of London cannot be
described, under ordinary circumstances, as a position of comfort,