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Public Health Department,
Town Hall,
Marylebone Road, N.W.I.
6th June, 1934.
To the Mayor, Aldermen and Councillors of the Metropolitan Borough of
St. Marylebone.
Mr. Mayor, Ladies and Gentlemen,
I have the honour as Medical Officer of Health to submit my annual report
on the Health of the Borough of St. Marylebone during the year 1933.
Relating to a "non-survey" year it consists merely of a record of the
happening's of the year. The same kindness, help and support that I have always
received came during the year from the Public Health Committee and the chairman,
Mr. Councillor G. B. Ramsay. These things I very greatly appreciate, and
for them I express here my grateful recognition and thanks, as I do also to the
staff of the department, who, as always, worked steadily and well and showed a
real devotion to the important duties they are required to perform.
To the staff as to the Public Health Committee and the Council also no doubt
it was a source of great satisfaction that following the survey of the public health
services of the Council conducted on his behalf during the year by members of the
staff of the Ministry, the Minister of Health should have found himself in a position
to commend the Council upon the standard of efficiency and progress maintained in
the Borough. In particular it was gratifying not only to the officers concerned but
to the staff as a whole to learn that the Minister had expressed himself as "glad
to learn of the excellent work which is being done in the immunisation of children
and those in charge of them against diphtheria. In the Maternity and Child
Welfare services he notes with appreciation the satisfactory co-ordination or the
work of the voluntary organisations and hospitals with that of the Municipal -staff,
and the increased attention which has recently been given to the supervision of the
health of children between tbe ages of 1 and 5."
I am,
Mr. Mayor, Ladies and Gentlemen,
Your obedient Servant,
CHARLES PORTER,
Medical Officer of Health,