[Report 1904] / Medical Officer of Health, Chiswick (Parish) U.D.C.

Chiswick (London, England). Urban District Council.

Date:: 1904

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Credit: [Report 1904] / Medical Officer of Health, Chiswick (Parish) U.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Chiswick Urban District Council. Public Health Department. ANNUAL REPORT OF THE MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH. To the Chairman and Members of the Chiswick Urban District Council. Gentlemen, In presenting yon with the requisite Annual Report for the year 1904, I may premise by stating, that in spite of the unlooked-for outbreak of measles and whooping cough which prevailed during the spring and summer months, followed by a severe outbreak of scarlet fever in the autumn and winter, my Report indicates many favorable features, as showing the satisfactory condition of the public health of the district, and its sanitary administration. It may be observed that during the past two or three years a very large area has been covered with buildings, and that the population has consequently increased in far greater proportion than in any pre- ceding period. In tact, this increase may be almost termed phenomenal, and, as far as one can judge, it