[Report 1917] / Medical Officer of Health, Worcestershire / County of Worcester County Council.

  • Worcestershire (England). County Council.
Date:
1917
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Credit: [Report 1917] / Medical Officer of Health, Worcestershire / County of Worcester County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    TO The Public Health and Housing Gommittee of the IVorcestershire County Council. Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen, 1. I have the honour to present my 29th Annual Digest of the 28 Annual Reports of the Medical Officers of Health and 29 Sanitary Inspectors in the Administrative County, which refers to the year I9I7* 2. On the 28th December 1917 the Board issued a special circular to Medical Officers of Health with regard to their Annual Reports in which the following statement occurs :— “ Having regard to the continued necessity for strict economy “ in *the use of paper and in demands on printing establishments, “ interim reports only should be made for the year 1917, and many “ details usually inserted in the Annual Reports, such as description “ of district, particulars of water supplies, sewerage, sewage dis- “ posal, &c., should be omitted. The reports should be confined to “ essential and urgent matters which have affected the public health “ during the year, especially any matters arising from or connected “ with the war, outbreaks of infectious disease, and measures for “ maternity and child welfare, together with any exceptional “ administrative measure taken or recommended by the Medical “ Officer of Health. They should preferably be typewritten, but, “ if printed, covers and blank sheets should be dispensed with as “ far as possible.Suitable arrangements should be “ made for careful preservation of all records, including the statistics “ now supplied by the Registrar-General, and it is suggested that “ after the termination of the War a report can be made dealing “ more fully with the period from the beginning of 1916 to the end “ of the last complete year, giving separate statistics for each year “ in order that the annual records may, as far as practicable, be “ continuous and complete.”