[Report 1942] / Medical Officer of Health, Margate Borough.
- Margate (England). Borough Council.
- Date:
- 1942
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Credit: [Report 1942] / Medical Officer of Health, Margate Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Health Department, 38, Grosvenor Place, Margate * To HIb Worship the Mayor, and to the Aldermen and Councillors of the Borough of Margate. Sir, Madam and Gentlemen, I have the honour to present for your consideration the Annual Report on the Health Services of the town for the year 1942. The Report is compilod in accordance v/ith Circular 2067 of the Ministry of Health which states that the Report should be confined to essential and urgent matters which have affected the Public Health during the period in question, especially in matters arising from or connected with the war. The year 1942 was.noteworthy for the remarkable absence of infectious disease in the town. Of the more serious types only two cases of scarlet fever were notified. Measles was prevalent for a short time but no deaths occurred from this disease, A Campaign, both in the National Press and through the town’s Clinics and Schools, persuading parents to submit their children for immunisation against diphtheria, succeeded beyond all hope, and I havo pleasure in reporting that at the end of 1942 90/o of the children over one year of age had been immunised. Tuberculosis showed an increase in the number of cases notified. War time, conditions, such as, overcrowding, sleeping in shelters^'long working hours and irregular meals all tend to lower the individual's resistance to infection. Twenty-seven of the cases notified were of the lungs and four of other parts of the body. Hospital facilities for infectious cases were provided, as in previous years, by the Herno Bay & Whitstable Joint Hospital. .. i The supervision of the sanitary conditions of the town was carried out by Mr. J« Rattray, Chief Sanitary Inspector, single handed, but I am confident that no matter requiring attention was neglected. The cheorfulnoss and fortitude of the population during the year helped the work of the Department and Welfare Centres to run go smoothly as pos3_iblo with the depleted Staff available. In conclusion, I should like to thank the Members of the Maternity and Health Committees.and also the Emergency Committe for thei]' help and support during the year. My thanks are also due to the whole of tho Staff, who have all worked loyally and with a will. As in 1941 the Department was carried on by the Chief Sanitary Inspector, the Chief Clerk and myself, with two Health Visitors and three Midwives. I am, Sir, Madam and Gentlemen,_ “ ' Your obedient Servant, G. L. BROCKLEHURST. Medical Officer of Health. i * t, .. May, 1944.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29788523_0003.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
