[Report 1943] / Medical Officer of Health, Weymouth Port Health Authority.

  • Weymouth (Dorset, England). Port Health Authority.
Date:
1943
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Credit: [Report 1943] / Medical Officer of Health, Weymouth Port Health Authority. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    WEYMOUTH PORT HEALTH AUTHORITY. To the Chairman and Members of the Weymouth Port Health Authority. Gentlemen, I beg to submit my Annual Report of the operations of the Weymouth Port Health Authority for the year 1943. Owing to the present emergency, instructions were issued by the Minister of Health on 11th January, 1940 (Circular 1937), that having regard to the desirability of reducing the number of records to be kept and avoiding as far as possible the disclosure of information relating to the movements of ships, the requirements set out in Memo. 204/S.A. with regard to the Annual Reports of Medical Officers of Health should be modified, and any permanent arrangements which have been fully described in previous Annual Reports, and have not been altered, may be omitted from the Report for 1939. The Minister also suggests that the Report should not be published, a small number of copies being reproduced for the necessary minimum circulation to the Authority and their Officers and to the Ministry. •. My Report for 1943 is subject to the same restrictions, and ;n wew of these requirements it will be observed that, in com¬ parison with Reports prior to 1939. the various tables have been considerably altered, and the bulk of the letterpress has been omitted.