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PUBLIC HEALTH DEPARTMENT
TOWN HALL, WEST HAM.
To the Council of the County Borough of West Ham.
Mr. Mayor and Gentlemen,
"Every Medical Officer of Health appointed under order of the
Local Government Board is required to make an annual report with
regard to the sanitary district which is under his superintendence
. . . The report is to be for the year ending 31st December . .
It should be chiefly concerned with the conditions affecting health in
the district and with the means for improving those conditions. It
should contain an account of the sanitary circumstances of the
district and of any improvement or deterioration which may have
occurred during the year in these circumstances."
In accordance with the above requisition, I beg to submit my
annual report for the year 1903, and in doing so, desire to point out
that such report must necessarily consist very largely of a summary
of my periodical reports and other matters which have been under
discussion by the Council during the year, and which therefore are
more or less within the immediate recollection of the members. The
collated returns, however, and the statement of local circumstances
which may appear superfluous to members fully conversant with them,
serve not only as valuable statistical records for future reference, but
are needed by the Local Government Board and other Authorities, to
whom the Medical Officer of Health is required to forward copies.
I am, Mr. Mayor and Gentlemen,
Your obedient servant,
CHARLES SANDERS, M.B.,
Medical Officer of Health.
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