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Foreword
7th December, 1966.
Mr. Mayor, Aldermen and Councillors,
I have the honour to submit the first Annual Report of the Medical Officer of
Health of the London Borough of Ealing. The former Municipal Boroughs of
Acton, Ealing and Southall were amalgamated to form the London Borough on the
1st April, 1965, and this Report covers the period from that date until the end of the
year. As was expected, this time has been largely taken up with consolidating the
Environmental Health Services of the Municipal Boroughs with the Personal Health
Services which passed to the new Borough from Middlesex County Council. This
has now been achieved and we are in a position to proceed to the stage of improving
the services and remedying deficiencies.
I have endeavoured to make this first Annual Report a comprehensive account
of the Borough's Health Services. This I trust will be of value not only to the Council
but also to others in the Borough engaged in the various parts of the National Health
Service. Local health services in Ealing are now really local, and it is important
that their extent should be known.
I would, in conclusion, like to thank the members of those Committees of the
Council concerned with its health services, together with the staff of the department,
for their help in what would otherwise have been a much more difficult year.
Your obedient servant,
I. H. SEPPELT,
Medical Officer of Health.
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