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Our volunteers attend regularly for a whole night at least once a
week and in many cases two or three times a week. It has meant
hours of study in order to attain efficiency, and I know that our
part-time volunteers have the same pride in the service as have the
full-time members.
There have been changes in the medical staff of your Health
Department since the beginning of the year and I would refer with
sorrow to the resignation and subsequent death of Doctor Giles who,
appointed in November 1941, resigned in November 1942 to accept
an important Government position abroad. Doctor Giles was a very
efficient member of the staff and a very popular officer. He was a
deputy upon whom I could rely at all times to exercise sound
judgment and to carry out whatever task was placed upon him,
with energy and enthusiasm. His loss at sea a short time after he
had said good bye to us, was a blow which we all feel very deeply.
I would wish to record my thanks to the staff of the Health
Department for its loyal help during the year. Few of us realise
that Mr. Smith, the Senior Sanitary Inspector, Mr. Coulter, the
Chief Clerk and Mr. W'iggett, Deputy Senior Sanitary Inspector,
have given between them no less than 110 years service to the Council.
I would also thank the members of the Council and its Committees
for the courtesy I have received throughout the year.
I beg to remain,
Your obedient Servant,
D. H. GEFFEN,
Medical Officer of Health.