[Report 1942-1943] / Medical Officer of Health, Epsom & Ewell Borough.

  • Epsom and Ewell (England). Borough Council.
Date:
1943
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Credit: [Report 1942-1943] / Medical Officer of Health, Epsom & Ewell Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    BOROUGH OP BP SOM & EY/BLL. r-mr p— To the Mayor, Aldermen and Councillors, of the Borough of Bpsom and Bwell. Gentlemen, I have the honour to submit a combined Report of the work of the Health Department covering the years 1942 end 1943* It is to be noted that owing to the unfortunate illness of Dr. Ive, your substantive Medical Officer of Health, he was compelled to enter hospital in January 1943? and until the month of October of that year the functions of your Medical Officer Y/ere carried out by alternative arrangements prior to the engagement of myself; the Report for 1942 was therefore lost sight of, and nov/ for the sake of economy and in view of the interim nature of such Reports issued during the war period, it has been considered a good procedure to combine in one Report a review of the years 1942 and 1943. As you are aware, the Ministry of Health at the commencement of the war ordained that for the purposes of security,' the usual statistics as issued by the Registrar General v/ere not to be incorporated in the Annual Reports, but all relevant data have been retained in our records to be incorporated in an embracing Report to be issued after the cessation of the present emergency. As an economical measure this Report is not being printed and thus owing to the shortage of staff and in the deaire to economise in paper, the usual embelishments of a pericutime Annual Report are not noy/ included# The Borough of Bpsom & Ev/ell is only a Sanitary District and thus the Medical Officer of Health does not exercise any control over Maternity and Child Welfare, Home Nursing, Health Visiting, School Medical work or Tuberculosis, and data as to these aspects of Public Health work will be found only in the Report of the County Medical Officer. In the main, therefore, this Report is merely a record of v/ork done, and in view of my own temporary appoint- ment I have, in so far as possible, refrained from making any suggestions for the future or indeed introducing any controversial matter, which in fact is outside the scope of a merely formal Annual Report# STAFF. As a routine measure the present establishment is included herewith, but concisely it can be stated that apart from minor clerical changes the substantive staff remains the same as in the year 1941* During the period January 1943 to October 1943 Dr* H.A. Nathan, Assistajit MediCcal Officer for Civil Defence exercised the functions of Medical Officer for the Borough* Dr. Ive has been absent as from January 1943 ^nd I assumed duty in a temporary capacity as from 1st October 1943* I have the honour to remain, Your obedient Servant, J.A.A. DUNCAN. Medical Officer of Health.