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County Borough of West Ham.
ANNUAL REPORT
Of the Medical Officer of Health for the Year 1893.
PUBLIC HEALTH COMMITTEE.
Alderman Geo. W. Kidd (Mayor).
Alderman F. Smith (Chairman).
Alderman R. Fielder.
Councillor P. Alden.
,, Fowler.
,, Hunns.
,, Jacobs.
,, Noakes.
Councillor Relf.
,, Rippin.
,, Rogerson.
,, Threlford.
,, Wood.
To the Town Council of the County Borough of West Ham.
Gentlemen,
I have the honour to submit to you my Annual Report on the Health Statistics and the general
sanitary condition of the Borough during the year 1893, that is to say, a short summary of the matters dealt
with by your Committee, and the work done by the Public Health Department during the year. The. chief
statistical tables referred to in this report will be found in appendices at the end, as will also a memorandum
on hospital accommodation for small-pox patients, which I submitted to you in November, and a complete
extract from the final Report of the Registrar-General of the Census Statistics of 1891, so far as they
relate to West Ham.
In various places throughout the report where it is deemed advisable to compare West Ham with other
towns, I have compared it with, in some instances, the thirty-three great towns in England and Wales
as a whole, but always with London, the latter being, in my opinion, the most suitable comparison, and
one not calculated to err in favour of West Ham. The situation of the Borough being immediately outside
the metropolitan area, the climatic variations do not materially differ in the two districts, while the natural
arrangement of London as a whole is certainly much more favourable to that district than is the low-lying