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I beg to inform you, that the Public Health and Education
Committees of the Essex County Council have appointed me as
Medical Officer to the various Public Health Services of this district.
The Committee of the Child Welfare Centre have under consideration
a similar recommendation.
Your former Medical Officer of Health, Dr. E. J. F. Hardenberg,
was responsible for the satisfactory control of the Public Health
duties of this district for a number of years, to September 30th,
1925, and it is much to be regretted that he had to resign the appointment
owing to failing health.
I crave some indulgence for any errors of omission in this
Report. Having only recently been appointed as your Medical Office,
it is difficult to become cognisant of the many and varied aspects of
the Public Health work of the district.
I wish to express my thanks to the Council for their support, to
Coun. Miss Mathieson, Dr. Billing, and my Colleagues, for their help
in supplying statistics, etc., and to Mr. W. E. Leather, Sanitary
Inspector, for his co-operation and invaluable assistance in the preparation
of this report.
I am, Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen,
Your obedient servant,
MALCOLM BARKER,
Medical Officer of Health.
Assistant County M.O.H. for Essex.