[Report 1967] / Medical Officer of Health, Hereford City.

  • Hereford (England). City Council.
Date:
1967
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Credit: [Report 1967] / Medical Officer of Health, Hereford City. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    though, fortunately, that will not be easy because of black people’s strong love of children. My thoughts run along the line of a total of 20,000 coming into the county, made up of 5,000 workers, 5,000 wives, and about 10,000 children. Ten thousand of that total would be provided with homes in Hereford City. That would mean about 2,500 families for us to accommodate having approximately 5,000 or more children. The remainder of the 20,000 total for the whole county would be dispersed in a similar way in the main urban areas, and in the County Planning Committee’s capital villages. A host of problems, including transport to the new factories, increased educational services, would require to be solved, but we Herefordshire people would rise to the occasion as we have done in the past. Finally, if there is any other means, or method, or practical proposal that would stop us from becoming an almost wholly senile community by the year 2,000, unable to recover spon- taneously, because so small a proportion of our then population would still be within the child-bearing period, I would be very happy indeed to learn of it. I. F. MACKENZIE.