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Metropolitan Borough of Deptford.
Public Health Department,
Town Hall,
New Cross Road, S E. 14.
July, 1923.
To His Worship the Mayor, Aldermen and Councillors of the
Metropolitan Borough of Deptford.
Ladies and Gentlemen,
I have the honour to present to you my second Annual Report
dealing with the Health, Vital Statistics and Sanitary circumstances of
the Borough for 1922.
In view of your decision to the effect that copies of this Report
should be given to so many citizens of the Borough, I have seized the
opportunity to increase the public knowledge relative to Cancer,
Insulin, the science of milk production, the treatment of Rheumatism,
and other matters of moment.
The public should weigh carefully the thoughtful preface on Cancer,
written for us by Professor Sir Thomas Oliver, the distinguished
physician and authority on Industrial Disease. It is in keeping with
his life of ceaseless and selfless endeavour for his fellow-men that he
should turn aside and write this article for us.
Dr. George Allan, Senior Assistant to the Professor of Medicine
at Glasgow University, has written a thoughtful article on Insulin, giving
us a proper perspective of the possibilities of Insulin in the treatment
of Diabetes.
Dr. Poynton, Physician to University College and Great Ormond
Street Hospitals, has kindly allowed me to write a "popular" article
on his lecture on Rheumatism and Heart Disease in Children. His
lecture has excited the attention of medical men, and it is time that the
public learned of the damage done to London's poorer children by