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To His Worship the Mayor, the Aldermen and Councillors
of the Borough of East Ham.
Gentlemen,
I beg to present the Annual Report on the state of the Public
Health and the record of Sanitary work during the year 1910,
together with reports on the Isolation Hospital and Bacteriological
Laboratory.
The Report to the Education Committee is also included,
together with an account of the work done in connection with Medical
Inspection of School Children.
The Report of the late Medical Officer of Health is, in
accordance with the suggestion of the Local Government Board,
incorporated with this.
This year has been a most healthy one, due in my opinion to
not having had such severe extremes of temperature. The General
Death.rate being as low as 8.5— the lowest hitherto recorded, as
also the rate of Infantile Mortality (90 per 1000 registered births).
There has been a remarkable diminution of Infectious Diseases notified,
viz., only 600. The Zymotic Death.rate being as low as 0.67.
I am, Gentlemen,
Yours faithfully,
W. BENTON,
Medical Officer of Health.
Town Hall, East Ham,
March, 1911.