[Report 1937] / Monmouthshire County Council.

  • Monmouthshire County Council
Date:
1937
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Credit: [Report 1937] / Monmouthshire County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    tary circumstances, the sanitary administration and the vital statistics of the County. In addition to any other luatters upon which the Medical Officer of Health may consider it desirable to report, his Annual Report shall contain the following sections :— (a) A digest of an annual and special reports made by the Medical Officers of Health of all County districts within the County; (b) A section as to the isolation hospital accommodation available for each County district and as to the steps which should be taken to remedy any deficiencies which may exist; (c) A section of the administration of the Housing of the Working Classes Acts, 1890 to 1909 within the County; (d) A section on the water supply of the several County districts within the County; (e) A section on the pollution of streams within the County and as to the steps for the prevention of pollution taken :— (i) by the local authorities, and (ii) by the County Council; (f) A section on the administration within tne County of the Mid- wives Act, 1902; and (g) A section on the administration of the Sale of Food and Drugs Acts, 1875 to 1907, within that part of the County in which the County Council have jurisdiction for the purposes of these Acts. (8) The Medical Officer of Health of the County shall send to us two copies of his Annual Report and two copies of any Special Report; he shall also send one copy of his Annual Report to the Council of every County district in the County and shall send three copies of any Special Report to the Council of every such County district affected by the Special Report . It will be seen therefore that this Order established, beyond possibility of doubt, that the County M.O.H. was in the widest sense of the term respon- sible for the public health of his County generally and was accountable both to his own Authority and to the Local Government Board, later the Minister of Health. Status and Powers of County M.O.H. Section 68 further increased the powers and enhanced the status of the County M.O.H. He was only removeable from his office by the County Council
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