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(7) The Voluntary Infant Welfare Centres were
opened for two additional sessions per week
and a new whole-time Assistant Superintendent
was appointed in place of the former
part-time Assistant Superintendent.
Official circulars were issued during the year 1925
dealing with the following matters :—
Food and Drugs :—
12.6.25 No. 604 Re Public Health (Meat) Regulations, 1924.
—.8.25 No. 616 Tuberculosis Order of 1925 (No. 2)—Meat
Inspection.
4.8.25 No. 755 Public Health (Preservatives in Food)
Regulations, 1925.
11.8.25 No. 606 Ditto.
Tuberculosis :—
7.8.25 No. 615 Public Health (Prevention of Tuberculosis)
Regulations, 1925.
—.9.25 No. 37/T Tuberculosis (England).
Maternity and Child Welfare :—
—.2.25 No. 101 Training of Health Visitors.
M.C.W.
9.2.25 No. 557 Training of Health Visitors.
Housing :—
29.6.25 No. 608 Re Housing Act, 1925.
Housing Act, 1925.
1.9.25 No. 866 Housing Consolidated Regulations, 1925.
Infectious Disease :—
—.5.25 No. 103 Pemphigus Neonatorum.
Med.
According to the instructions of the Ministry of
Health this report forms the first "survey" report
under the new arrangements for annual reports. The
Minister of Health suggests that in this " survey"
report Medical Officers of Health should deal comprehensivelywith
:—
(a) The measure of progress made in the area
during the preceding five years in the improvement
of the public health.
(b) The extent and character of the changes made
during that period in the public health services
of the area.