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PREFACE.
Public Health Department,
Ilford,
22nd March, 1910.
To the Chairman and Members of the
ILFORD URBAN DISTRICT COUNCIL.
Gentlemen,
In accordance with the regulations of the Local
Government Board, and the Board of Education, I herewith
present my Annual Report for the year 1909, this making
the ninth I have had the honour to place before you on the
health of the district, and the second under the Education
(Administrative Provisions) Act, 1907.
During the year, the Notification of Births Act was
adopted, and Miss Radford was appointed as Health
Visitor to assist in carrying out that Act, as well as
assisting in securing practical result from the Medical
Inspection of Children; thus exemplifying the practical
changes that are taking place in Public Health Administration.
Dr. Thresh, in his Annual Report for 1908, draws
attention to this change, where he says:—
"We are now entering upon a new era. Our ideas
as to the relative importance of factors affecting
the public health are undergoing a change.
Attention to sewers and drains, to water supplies,
to systems of refuse removal and disposal, and to
outbreaks of infectious disease, no longer constitute