London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972

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Deptford 1933

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Deptford, Metropolitan Borough of]

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institutions, will have to return to, and we realise with dismay
that no " scheme" can achieve the results aimed at under
existing conditions. To alter this state of affairs is the aim and
object of every Care Committee, and to this end we are working ;
perhaps almost invisibly at times. We can, and do, in some few
individual cases alter conditions, and improve them in many others,
with gratifying results, but the whole problem is so immense and
the remedies so far outside our scope, that we feel at times almost
helpless. We do not lose heart, however, and continue to work
and hope that the " better days " so earnestly desired may dawn
in our times.