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Health & Welfare Department
Billet Lane
Telephone: Hornchurch
Hornchurch 52555
To: The Mayor, Aldermen and Councillors
of the London Borough of Havering.
Mr. Mayor, Ladies and Gentlemen,
I present my report on the health and welfare of the Borough
for the year 1966. This is the Second Annual Report since the
formation of the Borough, but the first to cover a full twelve
month's work of the Health and Welfare Department. For this
report statistics relating to the year 1965 are available for purposes
of comparison and have been referred to in certain of the statistical
information.
Descriptions of the various services provided by the combined
Health & Welfare Department were given in my report for 1965,
and the present report therefore deals mainly with the statistics
relating to these services for the year under review with comments
thereon, together with details of any extensions or variations
in the services provided.
It is pleasing to record that the initial difficulties, unavoidable
in setting up a large department, have now been overcome.
Staff transferred mainly from the three constituent authorities
but with others recruited from other authorities, combining for the
first time in a Department covering both health and welfare,
settled down well together, and by 1966 were functioning smoothly
as a team and providing an expanding and improving service.
Dr. J. Gorman, Associate Medical Officer of Health, formerly
Medical Officer of Health for the Urban District of Hornchurch
from 1st October, 1946 to 31st March, 1965, retired on 31st
December, 1966, and I take this opportunity of recording my
appreciation of the help and assistance he afforded me in dealing
with the many problems which arose during the difficult period
which proceded and followed the inauguration of the new Borough
on 1st April, 1965.
I wish to express my thanks to the Members of the Council
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