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The Annual Report for 1947 contains, for the first time,
a section on the School Health Service which was delegated to
the Council as an Excepted District under the Education Act
1944. The placing of this service on a local basis has been of
great assistance in the supervision of the health of the schoolchildren
and it is to be hoped that, as time goes on, more and
more delegation of the Part III Services under the National
Health Service Act, 1946, which include the care of mothers
and young children, to the Area Health Committees will also
be possible.
I wish to express my sincere thanks to the Chairman and
members of the Health Committee for their help and encouragement
during a year of transition and to the members of the
Health Department for their help and co-operation during the
year under review.
I am,
Your obedient servant,
JOHN LANDON,
Medical Officer of Health.
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