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accumulating, adulteration and the sale of unsound food remaining
unchecked, immediate disinfection and other measures against
infectious disease ceasing, and all the manifold activities of the
Public Health Department not being promptly carried out, the full
effects of the housing difficulty would then be experienced.
The extent to which the careful work of the sanitary
inspectors and staff of the department neutralise the ill-effects of
overcrowding is not realised.
It is true that the sanitary service is still very far from
the goal to which it is striving; that is, good housing, pure food,
healthy working conditions, the prevention of infectious disease
and of the illnesses that arise from ignorance of the laws of nature,
but no steps that it was possible under existing conditions for the
staff of the Public Health Department to take during the past year
have been neglected.
The entire cost of the Public Health service in the Borough,
including all staff and the maintenance of the Tuberculosis
Dispensaries, the Welfare Centres, the Disinfecting Station,
Isolation Shelters and Mortuary, and all forms of assistance under
the Tuberculosis and Maternity and Child Welfare Schemes is
estimated during the coming financial year to amount to a rate of
3.9 pence.
The River Lee has remained in the usual offensive condition
throughout the summer.
In conclusion, I have to thank the Public Health and Maternity
and Child Welfare Committees for their support and kind
consideration, and I wish to express my appreciation of the
manner in which my staff have performed their duties.
I am,
Yours obediently,
G. H. DART
Medical Officer of Health