View report page

ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
MEDICAL OFFICER
OF HEALTH
1947
Public Health Department,
Town Hall,
Wimbledon, S.W.19.
September, 1948.
To The Mayor, Aldermen and Councillors
of the Borough of Wimbledon.
Mr. Mayor, Ladies and Gentlemen,
I have the honour to submit the Annual Report on the work of
the Public Health Department for the year ended 31st December,
1947. This Report is compiled in accordance with the instructions
contained in Circular 170/47 of the Ministry of Health.
Since the outbreak of war these Reports have been issued in an
abbreviated form, but full statistical records have been preserved in
the Public Health Department for future reference.
The year 1947 is the last complete year during which the Wimbledon
Borough Council exercised its functions as an autonomous
Authority for Maternity and Child Welfare and Ambulance Services,
and as a Hospital Authority. Under the National Health Service
Act, 1946, which came into operation on the 5th July, 1948, all these
responsibilities pass either to the control of the Surrey County
Council as Local Health Authority, or to the control of the Regional
Hospital Board for the area.
1