[Report 1948] / Medical Officer of Health, Pontefract Borough.

  • Pontefract (England). Borough Council.
Date:
1948
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Credit: [Report 1948] / Medical Officer of Health, Pontefract Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    yBhArt* BOROUGH OB PONTEFRACT v > i P»V ,x ' \f' ^ 1 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE_ MEDICAL OFFICER QlMIEALTjl_ *V ' FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31ST DECEMBER, 1948 To the Mayor, Aldermen and Councillors of the Borough of Pontefract. Gentlemen, X have the honour to present for your information and consideration a Report on the Health and Health Services of the Borough during the year 1948, The Annual Report of the Chief Sanitary Inspector dealing with the Sanitary Circumstances of the Borough, Housing and the Inspection and Supervision of Pood Supplies is complementary to this Report* The report contains details of certain health services which are not now the responsihility of the Council of the Borough, but I feel it is desirable that a. report on all the health services / |V» 1 m f * \!Yo v ’ / should be embodied in one document and that the Council would like Vy ' _ to have this information at their disposal* The year 1948 stands out both locally and generally as a land¬ mark in social medicine* A National Health Service was established in Great Britain* The need to have all medical services available to everyone as a right of citizenship and a primary function of national policy has been felt by all nations which share our language and have the same basic political philosophy. Australia and South Africa are at the present time working out National Health Schemes similar to our own, and New Zealand did so before we did* Even in the'United States of America, where the autonomous powers of the individual states make it difficult for the Federal Government to carry out a National Health Policy, much has been done by the award of Federal-Grants-in~Aid to level up the health services in that continent, and the institution of a National Health Servioo is believed by many to be imminent* It is safe to say that of o.ll those countries, Britain is the most advanced and lias a
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