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PREFACE
Public Health Department,
Town Hall,
Edmonton, N.9.
Her Worship the Mayor, Aldermen and Councillors of the
Borough of Edmonton
Your Worship, Ladies and Gentlemen,
I have the honour to present my 16th Annual Report for the
year 1950 on the health and sanitary circumstances of the
Borough. The Report has been compiled in accordance with the
requirements of the Ministry of Health Circular 112/50.
The separation of the Services formerly administered by the
Local Authority has made little change in the relationship which
exists between your Sanitary Department and the Health Services
which are now administered by the County Council; that is mainly
due to the fact that your Medical Officer of Health also functions
as Joint Area Medical Officer for the Area No. 1.
The administration is further facilitated by having all the
services in the Town Hall within easy reach of one another.
There are however, some fundamental points that might be
mentioned which time and patience may overcome, i.e. the relationship
which formerly existed between the Local Sanitary Authority,
and their Officers has now to be directed to a wider field. In as
much as those Officers which have been transferred to the Middlesex
County Council have now to depend upon a more centralised
administration ; this leads to a slowing down of procedure to which
we are not yet accustomed. Further, the introduction of other
ideas which are necessary in the administration of a County have
often little import to our particular needs.
Again, the relationship that existed between your Assistant
Medical Officers and the persons they had to deal with is now very
much different from what it was in the past, as only very little
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