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and organisations, not to mention individuals,
has been close and harmonious. Thus, we have
exerted the utmost efforts to promote the closest
liaison between the Department and general
practitioners, a liaison without which success
in the field of Public Health can never be fullyattained.
We have also co-operated to the
full with the Area Health Office, with other
branches of the Middlesex County Council such
as the Welfare Deportment, the Children's Department,
Food and Drugs Department, etc., and with
the many excellent voluntary organisations within
the district which are carrying out such wonderful
work. I would also refer here to the very
happy relations which have always existed between
the Public Health Department and the local press.
I cannot speak too highly of the wonderful help
we have received from the local press on so many
occasions, and would pay my humble tribute to
the invaluable assistance. The lack of this
cordial co-operation, which still seems to exist
in some areas has always surprised me. It
seems so much easier to co-operate with other
people, rather than to act in a non-co-operative
manner. I am completely satisfied that the
extension of this co-operation in Friern Barnet
over the years during which I have acted as
Medical Officer of Health for the District, has
played no little part in achieving results which
would otherwise have been impossible.
I also like to think that the residents
of Friern Barnet know that the Public Health
Department exists for one reason only, to help
promote better health in the community. I think
one can honestly say that this is the case, and
that no resident feels that a visit or letter to
the Public Health Department will ever be neglected.
Accidents in the home - a menace which
is assuming quite alarming proportions - has
continued to occupy our attention. I have contributed
articles on the subject to the local press,
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