[Report 1972] / Medical Officer of Health, Lowestoft Borough and Port.

  • Lowestoft (England). Borough & Port Council.
Date:
1972
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Credit: [Report 1972] / Medical Officer of Health, Lowestoft Borough and Port. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    at the time of writing. An era will thus be drawn to a close in which the Medical Officer of Health’s Annual Reports presented a very good indication of the progress being made in a wide panorama of activities directed at improving the health of the community. The great com¬ munal health problems of the past, such as infectious diseases, in¬ adequate diet, bad housing and working conditions, and similar environmental problems, if not entirely overcome, at least are well on the way to solution. The future of Communal Health will show a shift towards new problems such as the great increase in the ‘tension’ diseases, the increase in disability from accidents in the home, in industry, and on the roads; the problems of the pollution produced by great strides forward in technology, and with the virus infections, and with cancer. The new problems are in some ways more difficult of solution, but one hopes that in due course the shift in outlook which it is hoped reorganisation will bring, will ultimately achieve as much success in these new spheres of communal health as has been accomplished in the previous ones. I express my thanks to you Mr. Mayor, and to members of the Council for the support given to me and to the staff of the Health Department during the year. I have the honour to be, Your obedient Servant, ARTHUR C. GEE, Medical Officer of Health. Health Department, Clapham Road, Lowestoft. June, 1973.