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ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH
DIVISION
PART VI
1.1 At the time of publication of this report the day on which the new Health
Authorities become operative, the 1st April, 1974, will be close. On that date
the Environmental Health Service will constitute the whole of the Local
Authorities health responsibility. During the last few months many people,
including, unfortunately, some Council members, have spoken in terms of
the loss of the Health Department from the Local Authority Service. The
duties that will remain include functions upon which the modern local
government service was founded and it is hoped that the readers of this
report will realise that the Environmental Health Service plays an important
part in the comfort and well-being of those who live, eat and work
within the Borough.
Traditional links will be broken. This is perhaps the most fitting time to
express my thanks to my medical colleagues whose help and guidance I
have appreciated in 1972 and eerlier years.
My gratitude is also due to the Chairman and members of the Committee,
the Medical Officer of Health and all members of the staff of the Environmental
Health Team who have helped to make my task in serving the London
Borough of Sutton a pleasant one.
D.A. EVES, D.M.A.,M.R.S.H.,M.A.P.H.I.
Chief Public Health Inspector
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