[Report 1952] / Medical Officer of Health, Anglesey County Council.

  • Anglesey (Wales). County Council. no2003102100.
Date:
1952
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Credit: [Report 1952] / Medical Officer of Health, Anglesey County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    To:-- The Chairman and Members of the Health Committee. My Lord, Ladies and Gentlemen, I have the honour to present the forty-first Annual Report of the Count}?^ Medical Officer of Health, being a report on the health of the county in 1952. 1 his report diflers from its predecessors. In a circular issued in August last the Ministry of Health stated :— “As some years’ experience is now available of the working of these (local healtli) services as part of the National Health Ser\-ice, it is thought that it will be advantageous to central and local administrations alike if in every county and county borough a special survey is now made which will not only include an account of these Services as existing at the end of 1952, but will also contain a general review of their working as part of the wider National Health Service and particulars of the nature and results of the steps taken locally to link them up with the other parts of the National Service The “special survey’’ referred to has not been published sep- arately, but its substance, printed in italics, has been incorporated in the main text where appropriate. The annual report of a medical officer of health always includes matter other than that asked for in the survey. Furthermore, an annual report is designed to be one of a series wherein will be found the same type of inform- ation presented in the same form from year to year. To publish both an annual report in the normal way and the survey would have been repetitious. To omit either]would have been disobedient. The method of sub-editing which has been adopted will enable the survey to be readily identified while preserving whatever value the report as such may possess, fn addition to those sections which
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