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provides us with no annual report and there is no method of
liaison except by correspondence in times of trouble. Surely
public relations, actively pursued, should be even more a
policy of a water company than it is of some of our leading
industrial concerns, who have made of public relations a
foremost feature (even though such a company tries to increase
the demand for its product, whereas the S.E.W.C.
would only be too happy if the demand were less. )
Is there not food for thought in the fact that at the
end of this decade the west portion of the town will be supplied
by M.W.B. water directly and the east portion by
M.W.B. water that has been sold to the S.E.W.C. ?
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
In conclusion I must again thank the staff in the
Public Health Department, both borough and county, for
their unstinted co-operation. The voluntary societies who
help us in our daily tasks and blaze the trail with new ventures
that statutory bodies cannot at first undertake, but are
apt to take over when they prove successful; once more I
thank them. I would also like to record my appreciation of
the friendly assistance of fellow Chief Officers.
I would like to express my thanks to the members of
the Council, especially to the Chairman, Vice-Chairman and
Members of the Committees of the Ilford Borough Council
and Essex County Council with whom I work.
I have the honour to be
Your obedient Servant,
I. GORDON,
Medical Officer of Health.
*The Chief Public Health Inspector draws my attention to
the second report of J.Simon, M.D., M.O.H. ,City of London,
1850, wherein he states that the Water Companies claimed
then that they were supplying 21 gallons per head per day
for domestic use. In addition Roman citizens were receiving
300 gallons per head per day in the fourth century A.D.