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C.I.
AC 44132
CRO 28
COUNTY BOROUGH OF CROYDON
ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH
AND
SCHOOL MEDICAL OFFICER
For the Year 1926.
I beg to submit to the Council my report on the health and
sanitarv circumstances of the Borough during the year 1926.
Seeing that, in accordance with the request of the Ministry
of Health, a special review was made last year of the various
aspects of Public Health work in the Borough, I have given a
somewhat more limited survey in the following pages. The year
has been one chiefly of consolidation of the extensions of work
planned and put into effect by the Committee during immediately
preceding years. It may be said in general that in retrospect the
year can be regarded as a satisfactory one from the point of view
of such consolidation.
The new Clinic premises and Sick Nursery in Lodge Road,
which came into use at the beginning of the year, have proved
to be a ver\' real success, and their arrangements have added
greatly to the possibility of orderly extension of the work in these
directions.
The extension of Cheam Sanatorium and the utilisation of the
additional 35 beds provided there for tuberculous patients became
effective late in the spring of the year, and the staffing, administration
and domestic arrangements connected with the occupation
of the additional beds were carried through smoothly and with no
embarrassment to patients already under treatment.
The genera] health of the Borough during the year was satisfactory,
and there are happilv no notable outbreaks of illness to
record.
H. P. NEWSHOLME.
Medical Officer of Health.
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