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advances in medical treatment and care over the next 20 years
are to compare with those which have taken place over the past
20 years, there can be no reasonable doubt that the organization
necessary for this to take place must be made viable and competent
to meet the problems which will inevitably arise. The question,
on which there has so far been no consensus of opinion, is—What
is a viable and competent organization ? Whatever final decisions
emerge when the answer to this important and weighty question is
given, it is certain that all of us who are engaged in the administration
and management of the Health and Social Services will be
required to give of our best in order to effect the changes which
will undoubtedly take place.
Mr. K. J. Winton, formerly Deputy Chief Public Health Inspector,
was promoted to the position of Chief Public Health Inspector
in place of Mr. G. W. P. Weeks, whose retirement I reported last
year. Mr. Winton took up his duties on 1st April and I have great
pleasure in welcoming him as one of my senior colleagues.
My Annual Report provides a happy opportunity to express my
thanks and appreciation of the excellent work of my colleagues in
the Health Department and for the help given us by other Corporation
Departments with which we are inevitably associated.
I should like to thank also the Members of the former Health
Committee and the Members of the present Social Services Committee
for their help during the year and the two Chairmen of
these Committees, Mrs. M. F. Sporle and Miss G. A. Morgan,
respectively, for their guidance upon the many matters about which
I had to consult them.
I have the honour to be,
Mr. Mayor, Ladies and Gentlemen,
Your obedient servant,
J. TUDOR LEWIS,
Medical Officer of Health,
and
Principal School Medical Officer.