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The continuous expressions of appreciation from the friends
of patients at the Isolation Hospital and Maternity Home speak
a good deal for the Matrons of these Institutions and demonstrate
that it is possible to administer Municipal Hospitals with the
same sympathy as voluntary institutions.
Much of the routine work of the School Medical and Infant
Welfare services has necessarily fallen on the Assistant Medical
Officers, and the success of these departments is largely due to
them.
Mr. King's intimate and long-standing knowledge of the
district has been invaluable to me on many occasions. The work
which he, with the Assistant Inspectors, has been able to carry
out is limited, and the staff on this side of the Department needs
augmenting.
The preparation of this Report has thrown a good deal of
additional work with overtime on the clerical staff, but they have
performed it in a willing and helpful manner.
I have again to express my thanks to the various Committees
of the Council for the support and consideration which they have
invariably extended to me.
I am, Ladies and Gentlemen,
Your obedient Servant,
A. H. G. BURTON,
Medical Officer of Health.