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BOROUGH OF BARNES.
REPORT OF THE MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH
FOR THE YEAR 1951
PREFACE
In accordance with Ministry of Health Circular 42/51 the Annual
Report for 1951 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
Mr. H. W. Giles, who had qualified as a Sanitary Inspector earlier
in the year, left the service of this department in September, to take up
a position as Additional Sanitary Inspector with another Corporation.
Mr. J. M. Read, who, also, had qualified as a Sanitary Inspector
during this year, left this department in August, to take up duties as
Additional Sanitary Inspector with another Council.
Miss L. M. Fairclough was promoted to the position of Senior
Clerk, which Mr. Giles had vacated, and Mrs. J. D. Wallis was appointed
as Typist/Clerk in September, 1951, to take the position Miss Fairclough
had vacated through her promotion.
Mrs. Wallis had been a member of the Public Health Department
for some years previously until she was transferred to the Surrey County
Council, Northern Division, in July, 1948, under the National Health
Service Act.
Mr. J. M. Shearer was appointed as Junior General Division
Clerk in September, 1951, to take the place of Mr. Read.
Apart from the foregoing there have not been any changes in staff
during this year.
CENSUS 1951—ENGLAND AND WALES
As a result of the Census taken, it will be noted that the total
population for the Borough of Barnes is reduced by almost two thousand,
the total population for the Census 1951 being 40,558 as against 42,440
for the Census of 1931.