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Curative and epidemiological methods may be good and successful in
prevention of spread of an outbreak, but our efforts are applied too late,
for most Infections are the result of breakdown In individual domestic or
factory hygiene or faulty technique in food processing or handling.
Education and constant vigilance will prevent both types of error
and breakdown, and money and effort expended in furthering the spread of
knowledge of food hygiene will be well spent.
Clean counters, clean canteens, clean crockery and clean carriage of
foods, will go a long way towards achieving our preventive aims if practised
by all of us when occasion demands.
In the pages that follow will be found details of the services administered
by the Health Committee whose Chairman and Members have been my
most fervent critics and most ardent supporters during the years covered by
this report. I am grateful to them for their perpetual stimulus to action
In the Interests of the health of the people of East Ham.
I wish again to thank all those who have assisted me in the preparation
of this report, especially the Chief Administrative Assistant to the department
who has also given me considerable and Invaluable help over the long
months when I was without a Deputy Medical Officer of Health.
I have the honour to be, Mr. Mayor, Ladles and Gentlemen,
Your obedient Servant,
J. S. COLEMAN.
Medical Officer of Health and
Principal School Medical Officer