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APPENDIX 1
MISCELLANEOUS
(a) Letters to Doctors.
The following letters were sent to Southgate practitioners
during 1954:
28th January: Infection and Exclusion from School.
1st February: Endorsement of International Vaccination
Certificates.
7th April: Collection of Laboratory Specimens during
Easter Holiday Period.
7th May: Demonstration of work at Collindale Public
Health Laboratory.
31st May: Collection of Laboratory Specimens during
Whitsun Holiday.
1st June: Exclusion from School.
30th June: Influenza particulars.
27th July: Collection of Laboratory Specimens during
August Holiday Period.
15th September: Notification of Infectious Diseases.
28th October: Investigation into Salmonella Infections.
30th November: Influenza.
I cannot emphasise too often or too strongly the need for
close co-operation with general practitioners, without whose help
the work of the Public Health Department would be so quickly
stultified. Just as I try to keep the Public Health Committee
informed of all matters in any way affecting health, I feel it my
duty to acquaint general practitioners with changes in policy and
with new developments, offering and quite frankly asking for
co-operation.
I said in my Annual Report for 1953 that we were indeed
fortunate in Southgate in so far as this co-operation and exchange
of information are concerned. This still represents the happy
situation which exists today.
(b) Medical Examinations.
During the year, 9 medical examinations were carried out in
respect of entrants to the Council's service.
In addition, 20 medical reports were issued relating to employees
absent from duty for more than a short period through
sickness. Although visits were made on occasion to the homes of
sick employees, such visits were only made after contact had been
established with the family doctor so that misunderstandings
would be avoided. In the vast majority of cases, it was only
necessary to get into touch with the general practitioner concerned,
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