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sions of smoke control areas and now a large part of the district has
been covered. This has, of course, entailed a large amount of extra
work.
This somewhat discursive report must now draw to a close. I am
conscious there are many omissions. Had time permitted I would have
liked to have covered far more ground but this sketch may at least
convey a picture of the district as seen by the Public Health Department.
My own term of office has been since 1940 and since the appointment
had to come to an end with the Greater London Reorganisation,
I am at least certain of the distinction that I shall be the last Medical
Officer of Health of East Barnet. I can, with considerable pride, claim
that the efforts of the Public Health Department have played their
part in the certainty of the future of a healthy district despite the fact
that we still have too large a number of sub-standard houses and too
much overcrowding.
May I finally pay very sincere tributes to all my staff, Mr. Pickup,
the Chief Public Health Inspector, the other Public Health Inspectors
and the clerical staff. All have worked consistently well and have
formed a very loyal and hard working team. As regards these notes,
they could never have been written without the research and work
of the Student Public Health Inspector, Mark Williams, to whom my
very special thanks.
East Barnet can go forward into the new borough with head held
high and will, I am confident, continue to play a prominent part in
protecting the health of the Borough of Barnet, and as sure of the
backing of the new Borough Council as the Department has always
been of the now dying East Barnet Urban District Council.
C. M. Scott,
Medical Officer of Health
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