[Report 1949] / Medical Officer of Health and School Medical Officer of Health, East Riding of Yorkshire County Council.

  • East Riding of Yorkshire (England). County Council.
Date:
1949
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Credit: [Report 1949] / Medical Officer of Health and School Medical Officer of Health, East Riding of Yorkshire County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    To the Chairman and Memher.^ of the County CoimciL I linvp the liPiioiir lo siihiiiit tlie Aiiinia! Rp])0]“ts on the (leiieral and S(diool Healtli Services of tlie ('onnty Conneil for the year dhie re])oi*ts fo]' l!)4(S dealt in some detail with the (diano’es in tlie ronnty flealtli Sm'viees whiidi I'csnlted from the com in O’ into operation of tlu' Xational Health Service Act, The re])orts now snhmitted diail with a yi'ai' whi(di lias lieen laro'ely one of readjustment, followino' n])on tlie new arrano’emeiits which eommen(*ed on dth July, n)4(S. As part of the readjustment, thi' jiridiminary stao'es have been entered into for the administration of the ])ersonal health services of tlie (hinnty on a divisional basis. For this ])nrpose the Comity has been divided into four divisions, namely, the Rnekrose Division eonpirisinp' the ]\[nniei]ial Horono’h of Bridlino’ton, the Fidian Distidids of Didfhehl and Filey, and the Rural Districts of Hridlino’ton and Dritlield; the Holder- ness Division eomprisino' the ]\rnniei])al Horonpdis of Beverley and Hedon, the Frban Districts of Hornsea and Withernsea, and the Rni’al Distrii'ts of Beverley and Holderness; the Howdenshire Division eonpirisiny th(‘ T’^rhan District of Xorton and the Rural Distriids of Derwent, Howden, Norton and PoidKlino’ton: and the Halteni]iT'iet^ Division, which consists of the Frban Distriid of Haltem])rie(\ The ultimate aim is that there will he for t'aeh of these Div isions a Divisional Medical Officer who is also the i\fedieal Otheer of Health for eaidi of the eonstitntent C^ninty Disti'iets included in the Division. As a Divisional Medical Otheer on the stalf of the County (h^uneil, he will have the duty of administer- ing the personal health and sidioid mediiuil services for which the County Chmiudl is res]U)nsihle, and as a Medical Otheer of Health, lie will administer the environmental health services of the District rViuneils and it is ho]ied by these means to foro'e a very (dose and ])ersona] link between these services. This scheme will take some time to develo]) to its eonpiletion, hut at the end of H)4t), it was ali'eady partially o]ierative in the Ifiiekrose, Holderness and Howdenshire Divisions, where Divisional Medical Otheers had lieen ap])ointed who were also the Medical Officers of Health to some of the constituent County Districts,