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PREFACE.
The annual report has been still further
curtailed on instruction to omit certain details which
might be of use to the enemy, among them the population.
The size of the report and the number of copies
available have both been reduced in the effort to
economise in paper.
The year began with enemy night attacks still
frequent and ended by contrast in a period of calm with
scarcely ono alert during the latter six months.
Administrative difficulties were not so kind and the
complexities to be unravelled were if anything more
tiresome than those in the previous year. Most of the
permanent clerical staff had been called up and replaced
by women by the end of the year but the willing readiness
and unselfishness of all kept the machinery running.
Grateful acknowledgment is made of the assistance
received from the Mayor, Aldermen, and Councillors, and
from the chief officers in particular because the
exigencies of the times have caused departments to
overstraddle each other in fashions which must have led
to complication had thoy not beon met with so much
understanding.
Deep and cordial gratitude is tendered to every
member of the staff of the Public Health Department for
their loyalty and unselfishness throughout a most trying
year. But for their cheerful acceptance of difficult
situations often involving long hours of uncongenial
work, the satisfactory results achieved could never
have been attained.
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A.G.G.T.
July, 1942.
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