[Report 1941] / Medical Officer of Health, Cardiff County Borough & Port.

  • Cardiff (Wales). County Borough Council.
Date:
1941
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Credit: [Report 1941] / Medical Officer of Health, Cardiff County Borough & Port. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The Civil Defence Casualty Services have evolved, and their organization has been : consolidated. They have been well and truly tested and have come through the ordeal bv battle with credit. Planted like a cuckoo in the health nest, they have, as usual with such birds, largely ousted all other fledglings. The war-time nurseries and the baths for seamen in the docks area, already referred to, as well as certain decontamination | centres which may after the war lend themselves to conversion into health clinics, these 1 are fledglings which, it is hoped, may survive to the peace years, and deserving special mention is a pleasing “ biological ” phenomenon, a “ variation of species,” whereby ■ the Civil Defence Ambulance Service is used not only as a police ambulance service for accidents, but also (a special part of it, a “ mobile unit ”) as a highly successful means I of taking diphtheria immunization to the homes of the people. Nevertheless, it has I continued to be a difficulty to keep the flag of the general health services flying in face of increasing pre-occupation with the Civil Defence Casualty Services, particularly as in Cardiff we not only did not, as in many areas, seek the appointment of extra medical staff solely to deal with civil defence duties, but also subsequently, to meet the national demands of medical man power, we went short of two assistant medical officers. Here it is appropriate to record appreciation of the voluntary work of the Sanitary Inspectors and of the Vaccination Officer in the organization of the first-aid posts, and in bringing to this branch of the Casualty Services the same spirit of tireless devotion | efficiently applied, so well exemplified by the First Aid Party Staff Officer and the i Ambulance Staff Officer as respects their work for the other two branches—the first aid party and the ambulance. Thanks are also due to the staff generally for loyal co-operation under difficult conditions and to the Cardiff City Council for continued help and encourage- ment during this further year of war-time health administration. The following articles by members of the staff have been published :— “ Modern Methods in the Treatment of Cerebro-Spinal Fever ” by Dr. G. Emrys Harries. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine, July, 1940. Prevention of Diphtheria during 1940 ” by Dr. Cecil W. Anderson. The Medical Officer, 1st March, 1941. Health in War Time ” by Dr. J. Greenwood Wilson. The Medical Officer, 5th April, 1941. The Englishman’s Home is his Castle ” by Dr. J. Greenwood Wilson. Better Health, April, 1941. The Health of the School Child ” by Dr. J. Greenwood Wilson. Better Health, September, 1941. J. GREENWOOD WILSON. City Hall, Cardiff. 31s< October, 1942.