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per 1,000 of the estimated population) are, correspondingly and
consequentially, equally remarkable.
The Council's new Maternity Home at Milburn House, Knight's
Hill, shews a fine record for the year 1927, as was anticipated would
be the case, and the Council will have to consider at an early date
in the future the advisability of adding an extra Wing or even
Wings to the present buildings, to cope with the necessity for
increased accommodation, to meet the requirements (the urgent
requirements) of the Borough. The value of the work of the
Council's newly-appointed Assessment Committee (to deal with
fees to be paid by mothers) has been proved by the experience of
the past year.
I have again, as in previous years, to put on record the valuable
work of the Male Sanitary Staffs (Special Housing and Food and
District Sanitary Inspectors), the Female Sanitary Inspectors and
the Health Visitors, the staffs of the Central and Branch Tuberculosis
Dispensaries, of the Milk Depot, and of the Disinfecting
Department, and, last but not least, the Staff of the Clerical Department,
in which last-mentioned connection special mention may be
made of the valuable services of Mr. A. E. Ruel, who, in addition
to his own important work, took over that of Mr. A. L. Baxter
during the latter's unfortunate absence from duty on account of
illness.
Mr. A. E. Ruel acted with efficiency as Chief Clerk to the
Department of the Medical Officer of Health.
My personal thanks are also again due, as in previous years,
to the chiefs of other Departments, and to the members of the
Maternity and Child Welfare and Public Health Committees, and
of the Council generally, for assistance readily given at all times—
assistance without which no medical officer could carry out his
duties satisfactorily. The various voluntary Welfare Centres and
their respective Committees have also rendered valuable help in
infantile and child welfare work in connection with the Council's
well-known Maternity and Child Welfare Scheme.