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the standards "by which the health of the school population
can be judged indicate what I believe you will decide is a
fortunate and favourable condition of affairs. I use the
word "fortunate" advisably because I cannot help feeling that
the school-children and indeed the rest of us also, may have
fared almost better than we dared to hope and that because
this is so, the present favourable situation demands increased
vigilance in order that it may be maintained in the years of
struggle which lie ahead.
In the same way as members of the general public
have availed themselves of the Medical Services provided locally,
so also this same public (such as the parents of the schoolchildren)
have availed themselves of the services which you
have so thoughtfully put at their disposal, the more so
because the other medical services, such as the large
voluntary hospitals have not been so available as heretofore
particularly because of the difficulties of travel. If,
therefore, for no other reason, this is some justification for
the way in which you have maintained your services and I do
hope that after the war we shall have less of the indiscriminate
wandering to and fro in search of something new in the
way of treatment, and that more and more of the necessary
medical treatment which can be undertaken locally will be
undertaken locally.
I am,
Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen,
Your obedient servant,
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Medical Officer of Health.