[Report 1938] / Medical Officer of Health, Grimsby County Borough.

  • Great Grimsby (England). County Borough Council.
Date:
1938
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Credit: [Report 1938] / Medical Officer of Health, Grimsby County Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    (c) The regional scheme for the treatment of cancer was temporarily held up to await legislation introduced by the Government in the autumn of the year. (d) The municipal midwifery service had its first full working year and the local authority is now directly responsible for the administration and the nursing connected with over 75 per cent, of the births in the Borough. It was decided to close the headquarters temporarily instituted at No. 2 Manor Avenue at the end of the year. (e) The porter’s lodge and waiting room accommodation for visitors was completed and arrangements were made to deal with the heating system at the Corporation Hospital in a comprehensive manner by stages. (/) The skeletal structure in relation to the medical aspect of Civil Defence was perfected during the year. The work of anti-gas instruction was transferred to the new A.R.P. department in October. (g) Plans were approved for a new combined child welfare and dental clinic at Hope Street to replace the unsatisfactory premises at Hamilton Street and for a new occupation centre for mental defectives to be built at Nunsthorpe. (h) Arrangements were made towards the end of the year with the Lindsey County Council for the joint appointment of an obstetric consultant. (i) At the end of the year a senior dental officer was appointed and plans prepared for a complete overhaul of the dental services of the Corporation. I should like to take this opportunity of expressing my deep appreciation of the whole-hearted enthusiasm of the voluntary workers at the child welfare centres and of the hundreds of volunteers who have come forward to assist the department in all branches of Civil Defence. I will conclude by expressing my appreciation of the assistance given me when I took up duty in Grimsby by Aldermen Tate and Thornton who retired during the year. The efficiency of the health services is a testimony to the time and thought they have both devoted to this subject over a period of many years in both cases. I should also like to place on record the help I received from Mr. John G. Watson, Chief Sanitary Inspector, who retired early in 1939, and to wish him a long and happy retirement. I am, Ladies and Gentlemen, Yours faithfully, JAMES A. KERR, Medical Officer of Health. St. James’ House, Bargate, Grimsby.
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