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The pages of this report will indicate the large amount of work
which falls upon your Public Health Department. This includes the
routine work of the Sanitary Inspectors, upon which the health of the
population largely depends—the investigation of the conditions under
which people are living who wish to be rehoused either by this Council
or the London County Council, the examination and the surrender of
large quantities of food, the control of infection, the cleansing of
individuals, rodent control, and those many branches of our work which
promote environmental health.
For help in preparing this Report I am much indebted to Dr.
Warren, the Deputy Medical Officer of Health, Mr. Armstrong, the Chief
Sanitary Inspector, and Mr. Slade, Chief Clerk of the Public Health
Department.
I would also like to acknowledge the help and co-operation of my
colleagues in other Departments, Dr. Oldershaw, the Divisional Medical
Officer, Dr. Shneerson, the Chest Physician to Hampstead, and Dr.
Exton Smith who is in charge of the wards for old people in
the Whittington Hospital.
I am deeply indebted to the Public Health Committee for its help
and enthusiasm and the co-operation it has given me throughout the
whole of the year.
I have the honour to be,
Mr. Mayor, Ladies and Gentlemen,
Your obedient Servant,
DENNIS GEFFEN,
Medical Officer of Health.