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Chiswick Urban District Council
Sanitary Department.
THE NINETEENTH 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 1897 upon the general
sanitary condition of your District, with an account
of the steps taken in the administration of the laws
for the protection and improvement of the public
health of the Parish, together with other matters
pertaining to the Sanitary Department of your service
for the past year.
The following are briefly the main features that
characterise the year.
The vital statistics show a rise in the birth rate,
being about the average for the past 10 years.
The death rate was one of the lowest on record,
whilst the rate from zymotic disease was considerably
less than that of the previous year.
The year was on the whole ,a healthy one—the