[Report 1964] / Medical Officer of Health, Somerset County Council.

  • Somerset (England). County Council.
Date:
1964
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Credit: [Report 1964] / Medical Officer of Health, Somerset County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    TO THE CHAIRMAN AND MEMBERS OP THE HEALTH COMMITTEE OP THE SOMERSET COUNTY COUNCIL Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen, I have the honour to submit my Pirst Annual Report on the Public Health Ser¬ vices of Somerset. The Report presents a general survey of the services in 1964, together with the detailed statistical information required by the Ministry of Health. The general state of public health in the County was satisfactory. Although seven cases of typhoid fever occurred in a party of fifty school children who had just returned from an Easter tour of Spain, the outbreak was successfully contained without secondary spread. With increasing foreign travel, incidents of this kind could well recur. The National Health Services have been maintained despite national shortages of trained personnel and I am grateful to all members of the staff for their diligent work during the year. In November the town of Yeovil was selected for a trial attachment of public health nurses to general practitioners. An assessment of this experimental scheme is awaited with interest. I am grateful to acknowledge the help received from other Departments of the County Council and also would like to thank the hospitals and general practitioners in the County for their assistance in our work. Pinally, I would like to pay tribute to the many voluntary workers on whom we rely so heavily. Their help has been invaluable and we are fortunate in having so I strong a tradition ot voluntary service in Somerset. I am. Yours faithfully, A. PARRY JONES, County Medical Officer of Health. 'County Hall, ' Taunton. (August, 1965.