[Report 1939] / Medical Officer of Health, Cumberland County Council.

  • Cumberland (England). County Council.
Date:
1939
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Credit: [Report 1939] / Medical Officer of Health, Cumberland County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    9/72 (page 7)
    TO THE CUMBERLAND COUNTY COUNCIL. Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen, I beg to present my Eighth Annual Report on the Health Services of the County. In accordance with the revised instructions of the Mini.stry in Circular 2,UG7, the report has been reduced to a miniinuni, and only contains the essennal statistics, with a few jiages of comments on mattens of outstanding importance. The usual appendices have either lieen omitted, er mcorporated in the body of the report. In accordance with the Ministry’s instructions, all statistics normally included in the report have been compiled and retained for future reference. It has not been possible to issue even this brief report at an earlier date because, for obvious reasons, the statistical returns from the Registrar-General for 1939 were onl}^ received in the late Autumn of 1940. It would appear desirable, in writing this short and lielated story of affairs connected with 1939, to bear in mind the fact that that year saw the outbreak of war, and to divide what few general observations seem desirable into two sections dealing with the pre-war and war periods, and it would also seem desirable, beating in mind that this report is written late in 1940, and may not be in your hands until early in 1941, not to coniine these observations strictly to the year with which this report is concerned. PEACE. It has been my custom in this report, in accordance with the instructions of the Health Committed, to endeavour to depict year by yeai the progressive steps ol outstanding importance w'hich have been taken in connection with the Health Services. At the beginning of 1939 there were lour outstanding building ])rojects in contemplation, all of which had proceeded to the stage at tvhich detailed plans had been prepared and approved by the Ministry, and where steps preliminary to actual con.struction work had been taken, such as the acquisi- tion of appropriate sites.