[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Edmonton].

  • Edmonton (London, England). Urban District Council.
Date:
[1915]
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    56 General Purposes Sub-Committee of the County Committee with regard to the curtailment of their powers and duties, and is of opinion that further powers should be delegated. On February 2nd, representatives of the three Authorities attended a meeting of the Middlesex Insurance Committee and supported their views enunciated in the above resolutions. On February 13th, the Edmonton representatives presented their report on the conference of February 2nd to the local Committee, and the draft of a letter was adopted and sent to the County Committee. In that letter the District Committee said:— We submit that diminution of the powers of District Committees would before long produce apathy, instead of enthusiasm, amongst the members of these Committees, and a lessening of respect for the Committee by the inhabitants of the district. They endorsed the opinion of the Edmonton Council recorded in Septem ber, 1912, that all Medical Officers of Health should be co-opted on the local Committees appointed for their respective areas, as this was the best way to secure real co-operation between the local Medical Officers of Health and the County Medical Officer; in the final paragraph of the local Committee's letter a hope was expressed that the County Council would co-operate with the District Council and not seek to work on independent lines. At the same meeting, a reply was read from the County Council to the District Committee's enquiry of December, 1913 (forwarded through the Clerk of the County Insurance Committee), which only gave us a synopsis of the duties of tuberculosis nurses in the service of the County and completely evaded a direct reply to the enquiry Do the County Council intend to establish tuberculosis nurses in area No. 1 on the terms of their Public Health Com mittee's reports of October, 1912, and February, 1913, or not? [We may surmise, therefore, that such is not the intention of the County Council or its Public Health Committee.] It was decided, on the motion of the Chairman and Councillor S. H. Flatten, that Dr. Cogill., the Tuberculosis Officer for Area No. 1, be asked to state what his methods of dealing were with cases of which he was advised otherwise than through the district committee. He (the Chairman) had reported three cases and nothing whatever had been done. On 10th February, the County Council sent a letter as to co-operation in the administrative treatment of Tuberculosis between the District Council and the County Council, asking the District Council to submit full details of any suggestions which they might have to offer for co-operation in this matter, and stating that any suggestions would receive full consideration.