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BOROUGH OF WEMBLEY.
INTERIM REPORT
of the
MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH
for the Year 1941
To the Mayor, Aldermen and Councillors of the Borough.
Mr. Mayor, Ladies and Gentlemen,
In accordance with Ministry of Health
Circular No. 2604, the Annual Report on the Health
Services of the Borough must again be an Interim
one for the year, 1941; and as were the reports
for 1939 and 1940 the present one is brief, details
and figures already presented in monthly reports
not being repeated. In accordance with the
instructions of the Circular, too, certain essential
statistics are omitted at present.
During 1941 the activities of the Public
Health Department continued to increase and intensify
themselves, plans were set for possible war
emergencies, the Casualty Civil Defence Organisation
was called upon for constant adjustment in the
light of experience, and in due course a story may
be told of the various health services which, at
any rate for the first three years of the war, were
carried on with successful expansion and of the
health of the community remaining good in spite of
the total war now being waged. As the war goes on
the public, in fact, must depend upon having wider
and still more detailed health services, and the
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