[Report 1927] / Medical Officer of Health, Jersey.

  • Jersey (Channel Islands). Council.
Date:
1927
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Credit: [Report 1927] / Medical Officer of Health, Jersey. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    JERSEY. Only the most salient points are here referred to, information which has previously been given, is to be found in the annual reports of the past 5 years. The acreage of the Island is 28,717 acres which gives a population of 1.74 persons to the acre. The estimated population of 50,000 is retained, the reason for this has been previously referred to the immigration factor, which, in a place with a large tourist trade, can be appreciated. ADMINISTRATION. Last year it was put on record that “No legisla- tion has taken place during the year.” This year the Reglements Sanitaires were revised by the States and two alterations were made. The first is to the effect that the Sanitary Committee had only power to act in “ Sanitary ” matters. In the dis- cussion which took place over the insertion of the word “ Sanitary,” reference was made to the fact that the Sanitary Committee had enforced the recommendation, that refugees fromi a place, where there were known cases of Hoemorrhagic Small Pox, should be vaccinated prior to landing, or could return to whence they had come, where they v^ould be vaccinated compulsorily. Every year the fact of our unpreparedness against a Small Pox Epidemic has been brought to notice in the Annual Report and the “ coup de grace ” has been given to this the first and outstanding weapon of Preventive Medicine. The second amendment is that the Medical Officer of Health shall no longer recommend the closure of a house or part of a house, which is deemed to be insanitary. By the deletion of this reference to the official, who, by the Public, is supposed to be responsible for the working of Public Health