[Report 1923] / Medical Officer of Health, Orkney County & Kirkwall Burgh.

  • Orkney (Scotland). County Council.
Date:
1923
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Credit: [Report 1923] / Medical Officer of Health, Orkney County & Kirkwall Burgh. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    To The Scottish Board of Health, The County Council of Orkney, The District Committees of the Mainland, North Isles and Walls, and the Town Council of Kirkwall. Gentlemen, I have the honour to submit my Annual Report for the year 1923. The Scottish Board of Health, in their Cir- cular dated 28th December, 1923, dealing with Annual Reports by Sanitary Officers, state that: — “One of the main purposes of' the compilation of the reports is that, by giving them the widest possible pub- licity, they may engender a popular interest in the subject, and an enlightened public opinion to support the Local Authority in realising its high responsibilities for the health of its area, and in remedying, at the earliest oppor- tunity, the various defects which the survey may bring to light. Such an increase of public knowledge and interest in these matters may also become an effective means of educating the citizens in the more important conditions of public health, of warning them against par- ticular dangers, and of securing that important co-opera- tion and confidence between them and the Health Auth- ority and its staff, which is essential to successful health administration. ’ ’ As effect can best be given to this by printing the Report, I trust that the procedure of the past three years will be continued. I am. Gentlemen, Your obedient servant, JAMES R. ADAM. Public Health Office, Kirkwall, 1st July, 1924.