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BOROUGH OF SOUTHWARK.
Public Health Office,
Town Hall, Walworth Road.
Sir and Gentlemen,
I have the honour of submitting for your consideration my
Twenty-First Annual Report on the vital statistics and general sanitary
work of the Borough for the year 1907.
There has been no epidemic of infectious disease of any magnitude.
Scarlet Fever which was high in 1906, declined in the year under
consideration. Several cases of Cerebro-spinal Fever, some of which
were fatal, occurred.
The year upon the whole has been a healthy one. The general
coldness of the summer and autumn was unfavourable to the spread of
infant diarrhœa, which in its lowness marked a record.
All matters such as the visiting of infants, the examination of food
stuffs, and the certifying of places where food is sold have been attended
to as heretofore.
The multifarious duties of the staff have been zealously performed.
I have to thank the Council and the Public Health Committee
for their courtesy and support.
I have the honour to be,
Your obedient servant,
G. B. MILLSON,
Medical Officer of Health.
To the Mayor, Aldermen and Councillors
of the Borough of Southwark.