[Report 1915] / Medical Officer of Health, Nottinghamshire County Council.

  • Nottinghamshire (England). County Council.
Date:
1915
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Credit: [Report 1915] / Medical Officer of Health, Nottinghamshire County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Dr. Garstang (M.O.H. for Hucknall Torkard) accepted a commission in the R.A.M.C. in August, 1910, and is still absent. ANNUAL REPORTS. The Medical Officer of Health of each Urban and Rural District, is required by Section 19 of the Local Government Act of 1888, to “ send to the County Council a copy of every “ periodical report of which a copy is for the time being required “ by the regulations of the Local Government Board to be sent “ to the Board, and if a Medical Off icer fails to send such copy “ the County Council may refuse to pay any contribution, which “ otherwise the Council would in pursuance of this Act pay “ towards the salary of such Medical Offcer.” And, further, by the Housing, Town Planning, etc.. Act, 1909, Section 69 (2). “ The Medical Officer of Health “of a district shall give to the Medical Officer of Health of the “ County any information which it is in his power to give, and “ which the Medical Officer of Health of the bounty may reason- “ ably require from him for the purpose of his duties prescribed “ by the Local Government Board.” It is from the Statistical Tables in these Annual Reports upon forms supplied by the Local Government Board, that the Vital Statistics for the whole county are prepared. There is no reason, as a rule, why these Reports, or at least the Statistical Tables, should not be received by the end of March. It will be seen that some of the Reports for 1915 were not received until August, 1916. From one District, namely Newark Rural, no Report has been received for the two years 1914 and 1915, but only the statistical tables. The main reason has been the death of Dr. Broadbent, early in 1915, and the delay in appointing a permanent successor. Most of the Reports have been printed, as usual, though in a shortened form ; but as will be seen from the following list, the Reports from the Borough of Newark, the Urban District of Kirkby-in-Ashfielcl, and the large Rural District of Basford, have only been typewritten. At the beginning of the War it was thought right to postpone as much sanitary work as possible until after the termination of the War ; but now that the War has entered upon its third year, and there seems every prospect of another one or two years, at least, before the equable conditions of peace can be restored, the wisdom of that policy is more than ever doubtful.