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Medical Officer of Health. The certificates are required by persons
proceeding to certain foreign countries.
Arrangements were made and continued for this authentication and
from 70 to 150 applications have been received in recent years. No
case of an improper signature has been discovered and no applications
in consequence refused.
In 1955 165 certificates were authenticated.
Burial or Crenation of the Dead
It is provided by Section 50 of the National Assistance Act, 1948,
that the Local Authority shall arrange burial or cremation in the case
of any person who has died or been found dead in the Borough, in any
case where it appears to the authority that no suitable funeral
arrangements have been or are being made.
Between 3 and 6 persons have been buried or cremated each year in
accordance with this provision and in 1955 the number of persons was
three.
Health Education
The Health Propaganda undertaken during post war years was on a
comparatively small scale and as a consequence, the then existing
programme received detailed consideration by the Council in 1950.
It was suggested that increased use should be made of Posters and
Literature, and that the following methods should be used to increase
the efficiency of the Health Propaganda service:-
Lectures to the Public; Discussion Groups with talks;
Showing of film strips and pathological demonstrations;
Film Shows at the Health Centre and at local cinemas,,
In 1951 a joint meeting, was convened at the Health Centre, of
headmasters,, education officers, and the school medical officers to
discuss Health Education in the schools with a view to furthering the
ends of Health Propaganda in schools as part of the programme for the
rest of the community During the same year, a series of Health
Talks accompanied by the showing of a film was given by the Medical
Officer of Health to groups of school leavers (boys and girls).
These latter were very well received and were considered to have been
well worth while.