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Annual Report
of the
Medical Officer of Health.
FOR 1906.
To the Members of the Southall-Norwood Urban District Council.
Gentlemen,
I have the honour to present for your consideration my 16th
Annual Report on the Sanitary circumstances and vital Statistics
of your district for 1906. So far as health conditions can be
judged from vital statistics there is every reason to be satisfied
with the conditions prevailing during the year.
The rates of mortality are below the average for those of
recent years, with the exception of infantile mortality which
continues to be the most unsatisfactory feature of the vital
statistics.
Turning to the registered causes of death, which throw some
light on social circumstances, the deaths from alcoholism, phthisis,
and prematurity, are considerably higher in recent years. This
would be a disquieting circumstance in a stationary population,
but in large part the increase is explained by the immigration into
the district of persons suffering from these diseases, and is in no
way due to circumstances over which you have control.