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Appendix.
The following letter was received from the Ministry of Health
in connection with the survey of the public health services of the
Borough Council.
Ministry of Health,
Whitehall, S.W.I.
IIIA/730/4201/1, 19th July, 1933.
Sir,
I am directed by the Minister of Health to state that he
has had under consideration the report made by his officers
after their survey of the public health services of the Borough
Council.
It appears that, so far as can be judged from a general
survey, a reasonable standard of efficiency and progress is being
maintained by the Council in the discharge of their functions
relating to public health. The Minister is pleased to learn of
the comprehensive nature of the Maternity and Child Welfare
arrangements, and of the interest in this work displayed both
by voluntary workers and by the municipal staff and the
staffs of the hospitals and centres. He notes the satisfactory
extent to which the facilities provided are utilised by mothers
and infants. Whilst observing that much is also done for
children between the ages of 1 and 5 years, there would appear
to be some scope for endeavouring to increase the amount of
home visiting of children of this age group and the attendances
of these children at the Centres.
The Minister does not desire at the present time to press
the question of the appointment of an Assistant Medical
Officer for Maternity and Child Welfare work, which has been
brought to the notice of the Borough Council on previous
occasions, but he thinks that the question is one which should
be borne in mind for further consideration as opportunity
offers.
The only other matter to which the Minister thinks it
necessary for him to refer is the need for examination of
ordinary milk on sale for the presence of tubercle bacilli, and
for some general bacteriological examination of milk from time
to time, and I am to suggest that arrangements should be made