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Executive Council for Essex F. A. Wortley, Esq.
Hospital Management Committee' Mrs. B. E. Bottomley, J.P.
Local Medical Committee for
Essex Dr. W. R. John.
Voluntary Organisations Dr. R. C. Fergus (Walthamstow
District Nursing Charitable
Association).
„ „ E. P. Marr, Esq. (Walthamstow
Child Welfare Society).
„ „ Mrs. M. Osora (Invalid
dren's Aid Association).
„ „ Mrs. A. Cordell (Walthamstow
and Chingford Association of
Tuberculosis Care Helpers).
STAFF
During the year 29 whole-time members of the Health Area
Staff resigned their appointments and 23 new appointments were
made.
The apparent inconsistency between the numbers of resignations
and appointments is accounted for by the difference between
the number of vacancies at the beginning and end of the year.
Mr. L. W. Elmer, L.D.S., Senior Dental Officer, retired at the
end of the year after twenty-four years' service in Walthamstow.
HEALTH CENTRES
(Section 21)
HEALTH CENTRE SITES
The general position remains as detailed in the previous reports,
i.e., six sites have ben defined in the Borough on the basis of one
centre per 20,000 population each to serve an area with a radius
of one mile.
Part of the Priory Court site is to be used for the erection of
a health services clinic. Working drawings are in hand. Adjoining
is a community centre which is already functioning, but the scheme
is held up by the "credit squeeze."
GENERAL DENTAL SERVICE
The Senior Dental Officer reports as follows:—
"My report must, I regret to say, be a repetition of that which
I made last year, a story of a consistent but regrettable inability to
undertake the treatment of large numbers of patients who asked
for appointments.