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Birth Rate ll,52
(per 1,000 population)
Friern Barnet 13.23
Potters Bar 14.,18
Southgate 10.54
Wood Green 11.65
Infantile Mortality Rate 25,68
(per 1,000 live births)
Friern Barnet 23.33
Potters Bar 16.39
Southgate 27.63
Wood Green 28.33
Maternal Mortality Rate 0.51
(per 1,000 births).
3. MEDICAL STAFF.
The medical sta;~f in Area No, 2 consists of myself,
as Area Medical Officer, my Deputy, the Senior Assistant
Medical Officer, and six Assistant Medical Officers
Dr. Campbell, my Deputy, assists me generally in my work,
and is particularly responsible for the day-to-day administration
of the School Health Service. The duties of the
Senior Assistant Medical Officer are mainly those of supervising
the health visiting, home nursing and domiciliary
midwives services, although she undertakes many other duties,
including those of supervising nursing homes and work under
the Child Minders Regulations. Eech of the six Assistant
Medical Officers is based at a Clinic, and has a number of
schools allocated to her. These medical officers are
directly responsible for the work' carried out at the clinic,
and for the school health service duties undertaken in their
district.
I would like to pay a warm tribute to our medical
staff, who have co-operated whole-heartedly in the efforts .
made to maintain and improve the standard of the services
provided in the Area, I would particularly refer to
Dr. Janet Campbell, my Deputy, who has been my unfailing
ally in all aspects of my work. In the same way, Dr. E.S.
Stephen, the Senior Assistant Medical Officer, has played
a notable part in co-ordinating the services for which
she is responsible.
4. CLERICAL SECTION.
The Clerical Section is housed at the Area Health
Office, Town Hall, Palmers Green, N.13., and at White Hart
Lane (Old) School, N.22. This dichotomy is still necessary.