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METROPOLITAN BOROUGH OF FULHAM
2-6 FULHAM BROADWAY,
FULHAM, S.W.6.
TELEPHONE: FULHAM 7871
(ENTRANCE IN EFFIE ROAD)
H. L. SETTLE
M.Sc., M D.. D.P.H., F.R.S.H.
Medical Officer of Health
All communications to be addressed
to the Medical Officer of Health.
To: The Mayor, Aldermen and Councillors,
of the Metropolitan Borough of Fulham.
Mr Mayor, Ladies and Gentlemen,
I have the honour to present to you the annual report on the health and sanitary circumstances
in the Borough for the year 1963. The report of the Public Analyst, T. McLachlan, Esq ,D CM,
A.C.G.F.C., F.R.L.C., is included.
1963 was uneventful from the infectious diseases point of view and the health of the inhabitants
of the Borough has again been satisfactory. The number of notified cases of infectious
disease rose by approximately 900 compared with 1962, this increase being accounted for by
cases of measles.
Staff changes have again occurred. Miss R.P. Begg , Secretary to the Medical Officer of
Health, resigned her appointment in October on taking up a post with Holborn Metropolitan Borough
Council as Social Welfare Officer. Miss Begg had been with the Department for ten years Two
Public Health Inspectors left the staff, Mr. A.W. Gammack retired after 41 years' service in the
department, which he joined in 1922. In the course of his long service he had been for many years
the Senior Inspector for Food and Drugs, but later in his career and at his own request he returned
to general district duties. Mr J.W. Deards who joined the staff as a pupil Public Health Inspector
in 1958 and after qualifying as a Public Health Inspector became a District Inspector, resigned on
obtaining a similar post at Cambridge, his home town. Miss R. Reed, a clerical officer, resigned
on being appointed Senior Clerk to the Banstead Urban District Council Health Department She had
worked in the Fulham Health Department for 15 years.
All the above officers had served the department well and loyally and their departure is a
loss to the Council and the public.
The year has been an arduous one as a result of the reorganisation of London Local Government
which involves the combination of Fulham with Hammersmith to form the new London Borough
of Hammersmith The Health Department of the new Borough will take over all the functions of the
two Metropolitan Boroughs and also the services carried out by the London County Council in
both Boroughs. There will also be a transfer of staff on a large scale. All this has meant much
extra work in the preparation of reports and attendance at meetings.
For the greater part of the year your Medical Officer of Health also acted as Medical Officer
of Health to the Borough of Hammersmith on account of the illness of Dr. F.M. Day, Medical
Officer of Health, Hammersmith, and the vacant post of Deputy Medical Officer of Health, which
was not being filled due to the forthcoming merger.