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Public Health Department,
Town Hall,
May, 1935.
To the Mayor, Aldermen and Councillors of the
County Borough of East Ham.
Mr. Mayor, Ladies and Gentlemen,
I have the honour to submit to you herewith my Annual
Report relating to the health of the County Borough of East Ham
for the year 1934, together with the Annual Report to the Education
Authority on the work of the School Medical Service. In
accordance with the directions of the Minister of Health, the
contents comprise an "Ordinary Report" limited to a record of
alterations, improvements and developments which have taken
place during the period under consideration.
The year has been noteworthy in several respects. Changes
in administration of the Public Health Department with the object
of ensuring a greater degree of centralisation and thereby closer
co-operation of the medical staff in the carrying out of preventative
and remedial measures, were initiated at the beginning of
the year. The knowledge thus gained of the work of the various
Clinics, Centres and Institutions has proved not only helpful in
assessing the benefits to the community, but has brought into
closer liaison the specialised services maintained by the Authority.
Such procedure, more easily adopted in a circumscribed area,
tends to a definite and direct association of the individual with
the general health work of the Borough.
The interest taken by members of the Council in public health
matters is evinced by the large number of special reports furnished
by me during the year, which has greatly exceeded that of any
such previous period. The information elicited has not only
proved valuable in surveying the particular work under consideration,
but has been of material advantage in arriving at important