[Report 1953] / Medical Officer of Health, Andover Borough.

  • Andover (England). Borough Council.
Date:
1953
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    BOROUGH _ 0 P , .ANDOVER public health department June, 1954. To His Worship the Mayor, Aldermen and Councillors of the Borough of Andover. Mr* Mayor, Ladies and Gentlemen, I have the honour to present ray first Annual Report as your Medical Officer of Health, The form of presentation of an Annual Report is largely left to the discretion of the individual Medical Officer, although he must include certain specific information which is required by the Ministry of Health, In the pages which follow, I have tried to give you as much local information about the health of Andover as can be gleaned through notification of disease, « vital statistics, inspection of premises, reports of officials, and day to day contact with professional bodies and the general public. The information is necessarily incomplete - no assessment of health can ever be accurate to the last detail - but it is hoped that the reader will gain a fair idea of how Andover stands in relation to its attempts to maintain and improve the standard of health in all its aspects, where it has succeeded and where it has felled,