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5
COUNTY BOROUGH OF CROYDON
annual report
of the medical officer of health
and
principal school medical officer
for the year 1962
To the Chairman and Members of the Health Committee
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN
The first circular issued by the Ministry of Health in 1963
to all local authorities begins:-
"I am directed by the Minister of Health to refer to
Regulation 5(3) and Regulation 15(5) of the Public Health
Officers Regulations, 1959, under which the Medical Officer
of Health is required as soon as practicable after the 31st
December in each year to make a report for that year to the
Council, with copies to the Minister, dealing with the
sanitary circumstances, sanitary administration and vital
statistics of the area and any other matters upon which he
may consider it desirable to report. I am to ask that the
Council will give directions for the preparation as soon as
possible of the Annual Report of the Medical Officer of
Health for the year 1962."
In short this is a statutory report which must be written,
fortunately for local authority members satiated by a surfeit of
official documents, it is not compulsory reading.