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7
Annual Report for the Year 1936
OF THE
Medical Officer of Health.
To the Mayor, Aldermen and Councillors
of the Borough of Hendon.
Mr. Mayor, Ladies and Gentlemen,
1 have the honour to submit my 7th Annual Report on the
health conditions of the Borough for the year 1936.
The year has been one of steady development in the scope
of the health services and in the numbers availing themselves
of the facilities provided. It has also been one of marked
legislative activity in matters affecting the public health, the
most important measures passed being the 1936 Public Health
Act designed to co-ordinate existing public health legislation,
the Midwives Act which places on Local Supervising Authorities
the duty of providing adequate domiciliary midwifery
services and the Housing Act, 1936, consolidating existing
housing legislation and repeating the main items of previous
Acts as regards the maintaining of a survey of housing conditions,
the abatement of overcrowding and the provision of
accommodation for the working classes.
The Department suffered a serve loss by the death
of Mr. Chapman, Senior Sanitary Inspector. Mr. Chapman
was a man of great activity and during the course
of his many years as a servant of this Council undertook
responsibilities and work quite outside his normal sphere ,
but his most characteristic features were his tact and
persuasiveness and he was particularly successful in obtaining
the maximum amount of sanitary improvement without
any resort to legal procedure and without in any way
antagonising the particular property owners.