[Report 1951] / Medical Officer of Health, Nottinghamshire County Council.
- Nottinghamshire County Council
- Date:
- 1951
Licence: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Credit: [Report 1951] / Medical Officer of Health, Nottinghamshire County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![that honi's of work, ty])e of work and pressure of work for each individual W(n-e matters which must ])e controlled at medical level. Subject to that element of medical control the General Manager is personally responsible for the management, training and business side of the Industries. As I write, in 1952, very great strides have been made. A new spirit of pride in craftsmanship pervades the work¬ shops, and the men feel that they are receiving really skilled training which may later serve them well. Thus far this rather expensive appointment is yielding good dividends in the main function of the Village Settlement— the training under “ sheltered ” conditions and the re¬ establishment physically and in morale of this special type of “ patient ”—and also in the not unimportant practical spheres of Production and Cost. My original Scheme, prepared in 1934, provided for the appointment of a Business Manager, but this was deferred pending the gradual development of the Settlement and Workshops. Meanwhile “ management ” was essentially inexperienced and impersonal and a rather hand-to-mouth development was maintained. The years passed. War came. Adventitious aid came to production through the disturbed circumstances of war, and temporarily there was a flush of work and a standard of quality to which we could attain. Throughout the later years the foreman, later Workshop Superintendent, Mr. H. Malt by, gave most devoted and skilled service under conditions of extreme difficulty and anxiety. He served the Settlement well. Unfortunately he left us during the year to take up commercial work. Post-war conditions gradually deteriorated, the buyers’ market receded, and the necessity for keen skilled business management became paramount if the Settlement were to survive. Thus in 1951 the Scheme of 1934 was implemented. Would earlier implementation have saved us much tribu¬ lation or have we gained by delay through the hard school of experience and stress ? Who shall say ? I certainly hand over this Scheme to my successor with better content and assurance than would have been possible twelve months ago.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29925332_0023.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
