[Report 1969] / Medical Officer of Health, Derbyshire County Council.

  • Derbyshire (England). County Council.
Date:
1969
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Credit: [Report 1969] / Medical Officer of Health, Derbyshire County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    REPORT OF THE HEALTH OF DERBYSHIRE FOR THE YEAR 1969 In January, 1970, the Department of Health and Social Security issued Circular 1 /70 concerning the “Annual Report of the Medical Officer of Health for 1969”, relevant extracts from which read as follows “1. Regulations 5(3) and 15(5)* of the Public Health Officers Regulations 1959 require the Medical Officer of Health, as soon as practicable after 31st December in each year, to make a report for that year to the Council dealing with the sanitary circumstances, sanitary adminis- tration and vital statistics for the area and containing, in addition to public health matters upon which he may consider it desirable to report, information required by the Secretary of State. The regulations also require copies of the report to be sent to the Secretary of State.” “3. The Annual Report of the Medical Officer of Health is specially valuable as a source of information about the state of the public health of the area. In order that the Report for 1969 should be of the greatest value for this purpose the Secretary of State suggests that, among other things, it should deal with the matters referred to in the following paragraphs.” (The circular mentions certain points which should be covered in the annual report, including vital statistics, co-ordination of services, congenital defects, and the fluoridation of water supplies.) Regulation 5 of the Public Health Officers Regulations, 1959, which is mentioned above, reads as follows “MEDICAL OFFICERS OF HEALTH OF COUNTIES Duties. 5. A medical officer of health of a county shall, in respect of the county for which he is appointed, in addition to any other duties which may be assigned to him by the county council, carry out the following duties:— (1) he shall inform himself as far as practicable respecting all matters affecting or likely to affect the public health in the county and be prepared to advise the county council on any such matter; and for this purpose he shall visit the several county districts in the county as occasion may require, giving to the medical officer of health of each county district prior notice to his visit, so far as this may be practicable; (2) he shall perform all the duties imposed on a medical officer of health of a county by statute and by any orders, regulations or directions from time to time made or given by the Minister; 3) he shall as soon as practicable after the 31st day of December in each year make an annual report to the county council for the year ending on that date on the sanitary circumstances, the sanitary administration and the vital statistics of the County, contaimng in addition to any other matters upon which he may consider it desirable to report, such information as may from time to time be required by the Minister, and furnish the Minister with as many copies of such reports as the Minister may from time to time require; (4) he shall furnish the Minister with one copy of any special report which he may make to the county council”. ‘(Regulation 15 (5), which is mentioned in the Department’s circular, is applicable to Medical Officers of Health of District Councils).