[Report 1929] / Medical Officer of Health, Lancashire County Council.

  • Lancashire (England). County Council.
Date:
1929
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    REPORT OF THE MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH For the Year ended December 31st, 1929. To the County Council of the County Palatine of Lancaster. I have the honour to submit for your consideration the Forty-first Annual Report on the health, sanitary condition and circumstances of the Administrative County of Lancaster for the year ended 31st December, 1929. Annual Reports.—The Ministry of Health Circular 1048, dated the 5th December, 1929, indicated the lines on which the Annual Reports of district Medical Officers of Health for the year 1929 should be drawn up ; these Reports are “ ordinary reports. ” “ Full survey reports ” normally are required at intervals of not more than five years, but as regards the Annual Reports for the year 1930 the Ministry of Health, in Circular 1119, dated 18th June, 1930, states “ although the Annual Report for 1930 will be a Report of a more simple character than the full Survey Report which the Medical Officer of Health was asked to prepare for 1925, it should, for the following reasons, contain information on certain matters in more detail than has been given in the Reports for the last four years, viz. :—- (a) The transfer of the Poor Law functions in pursuance of the Local Government Act, 1929, and the other changes effected by that Act have necessitated a careful survey, by the Medical Officers of Health of Counties and County Boroughs, of the Hospital and other Medical Services available in their respective areas. The information obtained in this connection should be given in the Annual Report for 1930 on the lines indicated in the section of Appendix 1 to this circular which is headed ‘ General Provision of Health Services in the Area.’ (b) The proposals of the Government in relation to Housing which are embodied in the Housing Bill at present before Parliament will necessitate the early directing of special attention on the part of Medical Officers of Health to Housing defects in their areas and the compilation of accurate records regarding the Housing position generally. For this reason the section on Housing contained in the Annual Report for 1930 should be on a more extensive scale than usual as indicated in Appendix 1. This Circular has been issued at an earlier date than has been customary in previous years in order that Medical Officers of Health may be aware of the heads under which information should be tabulated on the matters referred to above. “ The Annual Report for 1930 should contain, as a minimum :— (a) Information in regard to the matters specified in Appendix 1 to this Circular, set out as far as possible in the order there given, under the main heads : Statistics and Social Conditions of the area ; General Provision of Health Services in the area; Sanitary Circumstances of the area ; Housing; Inspection and Supervision of Food ; Prevalence of, and Control over, Infectious and other Diseases. (Note.—The various items specified by the Ministry in Appendix 1 will be incorporated