[Report 1938] / Medical Officer of Health, West Bromwich County Borough.

  • West Bromwich (England). County Borough Council.
Date:
1938
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    B No detailed reference is made in this Report to the enormous amount of additional work carried out in the organisation of the Casualty, Ambulance and Hospital Services of Civil Defence of the Borough. It was possible, towards the end of the year, to unravel from the meshwork of multiple control (three or four Government Departments each with many Sectional and Regional Officers, and from other Departments of the Corporation, likewise dependent upon other Government Departments) some sort of structure for the local service. I desire to acknowledge, with thanks, the receipt of figures and information for inclusion in this Report from the.Town Clerk, Borough Surveyor, Borough Treasurer, House Governor of the Voluntary Hospital, Manager of the Employment Exchange, Clerk to the National Health Insurance Committee and the Engineer-in-Chief of the South Staffordshire Waterworks Company. I should like to express grateful thanks on behalf of the Department to the Chairmen, Deputy Chairmen and all the members of the Health, Housing and Maternity and Child Welfare Committees for the kind interest shown on all occasions and the courteous consideration of recommendations. I should like to make an exception this year and pay special tribute to the staff, and particularly my personal clerical staff, for the efficient and cheerful manner in which they have carried out their work, often long after ordinary hours of duty. I am, Yours obediently, W. S. WALTON, Medical Officer of Health. August, 1939.