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Public Health Department,
The Council House,
Mortlake, S.W.
February, 1914.
Gentlemen,
I beg to present my Annual Report for the Year 1913.
During the year under review, the Public Health Committee are
to be congratulated on the important advances made in preventive
medicine. Their motto has been " Salus populi suprema lex;"
and acting up to this they have secured a complete scheme for the
treatment of Tuberculosis, including Dispensary Wards and
Sanatorium ; they have adopted the Notification of Births Act,
and have appointed a Health Visitor, and another assistant in the
Health Department. Large re-housing schemes are maturing, and
houses actually being built. Several important Street widenings
have been undertaken and in some cases finished. Old property
has been demolished, or, if capable of repair has been repaired.
It is hoped that a Swimming Bath will be erected shortly,
and premises acquired for the treatment of school children and for
the cleaning of verminous or dirty persons.
The population is rapidly increasing, and building is going
on apace ; at the same time I should like to see more dwellings for
the working classes being built.
Two important congresses, dealing with Public Health and
Tuberculosis, respectively, have been held this year—one at Exeter,
and the other in London—both of which were attended by your
Medical Officer of Health.
I desire to place on record the care and sympathetic attention
the P.H. Committee and the Tuberculosis and Hospital SubCommittees
have given to the many suggestions and innovations
necessarily brought forward during this important year, and to
express satisfaction at the harmonious way in which matters for
the common good have prospered, or been settled.
I am, Gentlemen,
Your obedient servant,
B. C. STEVENS.
The Chairman and Members of
the U.D.C. of Barnes.