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domiciliary health services in the Borough, and I have been fortunate in the close
and friendly co-operation which has always existed between this Department and
that of Dr. B. E. A. Sharpe, Divisional Medical Officer of Health Division 3.
Towards the end of the year Dr. Sharpe was selected to take up an appointment
as Divisional Medical Officer in another part of the County, and I should like to
take this opportunity, therefore, of expressing my personal appreciation of the help
and co-operation most willingly offered by Dr. Sharpe during her stay in Health
Division 3. Dr. Wilfrid G. Harding was appointed to succeed Dr. Sharpe, and it
is anticipated that the excellent relationships between the Health Division and the
Borough's Health Department will be fully maintained in the future as in the past.
Relationship between the Head of a Department and the Chairmen of
Committees with which he has to deal is a most important one in the Local Govern—
ment service. Good and understanding relationships are of more than personal
importance, because they may affect to a material degree the smooth working of the
local services. I have been fortunate in the understanding and co-operation which
the two principal Chairmen with whom the Medical Officer of Health has to deal
here, namely, Alderman A. J. Rogers, Chairman of the Public Health Committee,
and Councillor E. J. W. Bayliss, Chairman of the Housing Committee, have always
given. I must express my thanks both to them and to Members of their respective
Committees for the very full consideration afforded to the many matters, both in
relation to the services themselves and the staff of the Department, which I have
placed before them during the past year.
V. FREEMAN,
Medical Officer of Health.