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Borough of Bromley.
Report of the Medical Officer of Health
for the Year 1931.
To the Mayor, Aldermen and Councillors.
Me. Mayor, Madam and Gentlemen,
I beg to submit the Annual Report of the Health
of the Borough of Bromley, and of the work of the
School Medical Service, during the year 1931. The
Report follows the lines of previous reports and is in
accordance with the requirements of the Ministry of
Health (Circular 1206).
This year shows no outstanding feature as far as
the health services in Bromley are concerned. There has
been no extensions of the provisions, unless such extension
be due to the increased use of existing services
bought about by the population increase during the past
few years. There is a growing demand for public health
services, not because the various clinics offer facilities
for specialised treatment, but because the public is alive
to the fact that advice is more valuable than actual
treatment. One sees this so-called health conscience
Becoming stronger year by year, an indication that the
Practice of living a physiological life is not a matter
beyond the capabilities of the human race. It is for this
reason that one regrets the tendency to treat the
individual at the expense of the community at large;
the passing of the Poor Law treatment services into the
sphere of local health authorities under the Local Government
Act of 1929, is diverting our energies into the
sphere of treatment instead of concentrating upon the
factors that make for physiological health.