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Chiswick Urban District Council.
Sanitary Department.
THE SEVENTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT
of the
MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH.
Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen,
I beg to submit for your consideration
my Annual Report for the year 1895 upon the general
sanitary condition of our distriót, together with an
account of the steps taken in the administration of
the laws for the proteótion and improvement of the
public health of the parish, combined with other
details pertaining to the Sanitary Department of your
service for the past year.
The following are briefly some of the main
features which characterised the year.
The Vital Statistics
indicate a continued falling-off in the birth rate, being
the lowest during the past ten years.
The Death Rate
and zymotic death rate continue low, although the
former was slightly in excess of that for the year
1894.