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checked and returned to the publishers. The Handbook is
being produced free of charge, and should prove of interest
and value to residents.
Two events in the field of preventive medicine,
which belong more properly to the Annual Report for 1956,
were begun in 1955. These were the preparations for the
housing survey to be undertaken under the Housing Repairs
and Rents Act, 1954, and the preliminary work called for
by the passing of the Food and Drugs Act 1955. It will
only be necessary here to state that the Public Health
Department has been laying its plans, so to speak, so that,
when the proper time arrives, we hope to be able to go
immediately into action.
My work as Medical Officer of Health for Friern
Barnet has again been made easy by the continued support and
encouragement which I have received from the Public Health
Committee and from all members of the Urban District
Council. In my Annual Report for 1954, I stated that
this courtesy and assistance lightens the work of the
Medical Officer of Health and of the Public Health Department
generally. I can add nothing to these remarks,
although I am more conscious of their meaning year by year.
I would again express my very sincere thanks to
all members of the Public Health Department staff for their
continued loyalty and devotion to duty. I would make
particular reference once again to the work of Mr. W.R.
Jackaman, Chief Sanitary Inspector, who has been of the
greatest help to me on all occasions.
I am, Madam Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen,
Your obedient servant,
W. C. HARVEY.
Medical Officer of Health.
August 1956.
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