[Report 1923] / Medical Officer of Health, Hastings County Borough.

  • Hastings (England). County Borough Council.
Date:
1923
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    PREFACE. Health Department, Town Hall Chambers, Hastings, April, 1924. To His Worship The Mayor, and to the Aldermen and Councillors of the County Borough of Hastings. Mr. Mayor, Ladies and Gentlemen, I have the honour to submit herewith my first annual report on the health and sanitary condition of the County Borough of Hastings for 1923. In doing so I have to express my most sincere thanks to the Council generally, and in particular to the Chairmen and Members of Committees associated with the Medical Services, for the whole-hearted encouragement and help which have been so freely accorded to me since taking up my duties. During the year I have had the great advantage of the counsel and advice of my predecessor, Dr. A. Scarlyn Wilson, as Consulting Medical Officer of Health for that period. In his final retirement to private practice Dr. Wilson carries with him the best wishes and deep affection of every member of the staff of the Health Department. During his long and faithful tenure of office he has seen the inception and development of the great preventive medical services of to-day, the continued progress of which in this town we know he will continue to watch, in spite of the many claims of a busy professional life, with interest and sympathy. The report for 1923 is an “ordinary report,” drawn up in accordance with the minimum requirements of the Ministry of Health, and containing also such other matters as are of current interest in regard to the Health Services of the Corporation. For the first time the annual report of the School Medical Service is included, also short sections on the working of the Mental Deficiency Act and on the meteorological conditions of the year.