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BOROUGH OF BARNES.
REPORT OF THE MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH
FOR THE YEAR 1950
PREFACE
In accordance with Ministry of Health Circular 112/50, the Annual
Report for 1950 has been prepared on the same lines as previous years,
and consists of two parts—a preface in which reference is made to
items of special interest, and an appendix in which is tabulated the
statistics relating to the health of the district.
The Registrar General is now supplying local authorities with
"Comparability Factors" in respect of births and deaths, and you will
see that these have been used in the compilation of the various statistics.
I would explain that the use of the factors supplied by the Registrar
General give corrected figures to the local rates, enabling truer comparisons
to be made with the remainder of the country—i.e. as though
the ages and sexes of the local population were in the same proportion
as those for the whole country.
STAFF
Mrs. P. M. Oakley, Clerk/Shorthand-typist to the Department,
resigned due to domestic reasons, and was replaced by Miss L. M.
Fairclough. Miss Fairclough had previously been with the department
for a number of years but was transferred to the Surrey County Council
when the Home Help Service came within their province under the
National Health Scheme.
I have pleasure in recording that during the year Mr. F. A. Sadler,
District Sanitary Inspector, was successful in passing the Examination
of the Royal Sanitary Institute in Sanitary Science as Applied to
Buildings and Public Works, and that Messrs. H. W. Giles and J. M.
Read of the clerical staff qualified as Sanitary Inspectors, passing the
Examination of the Royal Sanitary Institute and Sanitary Inspectors'
Joint Board.
PREVALENCE OF, AND CONTROL OVER, INFECTIOUS
DISEASES
Generally
The incidence was again low, and I am pleased to report that no
cases of diphtheria were notified during the year.