[Report 1920] / Medical Officer of Health, Staffordshire County Council.

  • Staffordshire (England). County Council.
Date:
1920
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Credit: [Report 1920] / Medical Officer of Health, Staffordshire County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Annual Report of the Medical Officer of Health. Preliminary Note. In presenting this, my thirty-second annual report, I desire to express my great regret that it will be my last. On health grounds I have been compelled to resign my appoint¬ ment and thus cease to take an active part in the administra¬ tive public health work of the County, the initiation and early development of which I had to undertake, being the first County Medical Officer of Health to be appointed in the country. While regretting my retirement from active administrative work, I am glad to know that, through the action of the County Council in retaining my services in a consultative capacity, I shall not be completely cut off from participation in future public health developments. Needless to say, when my services are sought for in this capacity, I shall only be too glad to render any help I can, and it is satisfactory to me to feel that, while I am physically no longer able to conduct the daily routine public health work of the County, which has developed so immensely in recent years, I am still capable of undertaking the less onerous service. I again regret that I was unable to complete this report in time for presentation at the November meeting of the County Council following the year to which it relates—as I always found it possible to do before the war—but this was unavoid¬ able because some of the reports of the local medical officers of health for 1920 did not reach me until about the end of the following year. The Minister of Health has recently modified his requirements by reducing the scope of the report, and it should be possible, in future, for the local medical officers of health to present their reports within the time specified,