[Report 1952] / Medical Officer of Health, Nottinghamshire County Council.

  • Nottinghamshire County Council
Date:
1952
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Credit: [Report 1952] / Medical Officer of Health, Nottinghamshire County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    NOTTINGHAMSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL. Public Health Department, County Hall, Trent Bridge, Nottingham. December, 1953. To The Chairman and Members of the Nottinghamshire County Council. Ladies and Gentlemen, The final preparation of this Annual Report for the year 1952 comes as something of an anticlimax. In accordance with the requirements of the Ministry of Health Circular 29/52, I prepared a comprehensive Survey of the Local Health Services provided under the National Health Service Acts in time for submission to the Ministry by the end of February, and this was presented to the County Health Committee at their meeting on the 1st April, 1953. The preparation of the Survey material by the date requested was a high-powered effort and I think I should fail in my duty if I did not pay tribute to the efforts of my senior sectional clerical staff in this con¬ nection, particularly mentioning Mr. W. L. Richardson, my l.ay Adminis¬ trative Assistant, in whose hands was placed responsibility for the initial build-up of the Survey. My comments on the development of the Health Services have been included in the Survey Report and call for no amplification. Much of the material in the Medical Officer of Health’s Annual Report—the presentation of which is his statutory obligation'—is of necessity statistical and, having regard to the virtue of economy in words, space and pounds, shillings and pence, gives little idea of the constant effort of the field workers within the public health system, nor of the multiplicity of health and human problems they are called upon to deal with in the course of their year’s work. Nor is it always appreciated that in the County area the work goes on in spite of snow, flood or fog.
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