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Metropolitan Borough of Hackney
REPORT OF THE MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH
FOR THE YEAR 1945
Public Health Department,
Town Hall, Hackney, E.8.
To the Mayor, Aldermen and Councillors
of the Metropolitan Borough of Hackney.
In accordance with Ministry of Health Circular 28/46, this
report on the health of the Borough in 1945 has been prepared on
abridged lines similar to the annual reports for the war years.
With the end of the war a start was made during the year
upon the return to normal working conditions in the Department,
which shed its responsibilities for the administration of the Civil
Defence Casualty Services. This released various members of the
staff from their full-time or part-time Civil Defence duties, and
towards the end of the year those members of the staff who had
been serving with the forces began to return to the Department
also.
There is, of course, a great deal of leeway in various directions
to be made up. For instance, the standard of fitness of
dwellings in the Borough has steadily deteriorated during the war
years owing to the scarcity of labour and materials for house repair
work and, of course, very extensive damage and destruction of
property resulting from enemy attack. The return to normal
working conditions in the Department must necessarily be a gradual