[Report 1969] / Medical Officer of Health, Cumberland County Council.

  • Cumberland (England). County Council.
Date:
1969
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    and my Senior Administrative Assistant Mr. J. J. Pattinson, have been invaluable in this regard, and great help in the co-ordination of the local arms of the health service has been given both by Mr. R. S. Venters, Chairman, and Mr. W. J. Ball, Clerk to the Special Area Committee; by Dr. H. Nelson, Chairman, and Mr. F. M. Smith, Clerk to the Local Medical Committee, in the period cov- ered by this report. However, it is to the Chairman of the Health Committee, Mrs. E. G. Cain, O.B.E., J.P., together with her Health and Wel- fare Committee, that I have looked for support, guidance and help in advising and agreeing the appropriate administrative chan- ges to meet the contemporary socio-medical needs of the com- munity. This may well be one of the last reports—I anticipate not more than three or four more—that I will be making as County Medical Officer of Health. The new, extended, and accepted role of the Medical Officer of Health as Community Physician is already a reality to me as i continue my work in the community, and in the West Cumberland Hospital, alongside my clinical col- leagues whose fine work puts the community so much in their debt. The report is, thus, one of continued progress, of sensible and often pioneering development, of fine sensitivity to the differ- ing and increasing health needs of this contemporary rural society. fn all this work the advice and professional guidance of the chief officers of the Council, in particular of the Clerk of the County Council, Mr. G. N. C. Swift, and the County Treasurer, Mr. S. Litchfield, has always been made readily available. It has been of inestimable value for me to have been able to rely on such support.