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Public Health Department,
Ashburton House,
Wood Green, N.22.
July 26th, 1939.
To the Mayor, Aldermen and Councillors
of the Borough of Wood Green.
Ladies and Gentlemen,
I beg to present to you my Annual Report as Medical Officer
of Health for the year 1938.
The year has been one of very great activity as in addition to
the ordinary routine health work, which increases steadily year by
year, there have been laid on the Health Department, particularly
during the second half of the year, very heavy responsibilities
under the Government's Air Raid Precautions Scheme.
These responsibilities comprising as they do, among other
duties, the siting and adaptation of buildings—First-Aid Posts,
Stretcher Party and Ambulance Depots, the training of many
hundreds of volunteers in the various duties of first-aid
personnel, and the development of an emergency ambulance
organisation, have necessarily involved a very great deal of work
which, until a few weeks ago, has been borne entirely by the
ordinary staff of the department with the assistance of a small
number of enthusiastic A.R.P. volunteers. Our work has not