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PREFACE
Public Health Department.
Town Hall,
Edmonton, N.9.
His Worship the Mayor, Aldermen and Councillors
of the Borough of Edmonton.
Your Worship, Ladies and Gentlemen,
This is my 17th Annual Report for the year 1951 on the
health and sanitary circumstances of the Borough. The Report
is compiled in accordance with the requirements of the Ministry
of Health Circular 42/51.
The National Health Service Act is now three years in existence
and it has created difficulties which it is to be hoped will be healed
in time and with better administration. It has taken some considerable
effort to align the services which we had in this Borough
with those of another, difficulties have arisen, as they always do,
under similar circumstances.
Rendering an account of your stewardship in common to a
Committee who possess little powers of administration seems to
be a very futile proposition. It is to be hoped that wiser counsels
will prevail in order to reduce the amount of administrative wor
in providing a service to the people.
At present the administration of the Medical Officer of Health
and the Area Medical Officer is in one building, and it is to be
hoped that an Area Health Office will be provided in the not too
distant future, this will separate the Sanitary from the Area Health
Administration, and while it will prove a useful purpose in the
health administration of the area as a whole, it will undoubtedly
create difficulties in the Medical Officer of Health's Department.
It is apparent that the National Health Service Act was built
up around Health Centres; as none of these is forthcoming the
administration of the Health Services must of necessity be very
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