[Report 1954] / Medical Officer of Health and School Medical Officer of Health, Swindon Borough.

  • Swindon (Wiltshire, England). Borough Council.
Date:
1954
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Credit: [Report 1954] / Medical Officer of Health and School Medical Officer of Health, Swindon Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    4 ANNUAL REPORT of the MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH To the Mayor, Aldermen and Councillors of the Borough of Swindon. Mr. Mayor, Ladies and Gentlemen, 1 have the honour to present the Annual Report on the work of the Health Department for the year 1954. The report has been prepared on the lines suggested by the Ministry of Health Circular 170/47. Although this report deals only with the work of the department as the Local Sanitary Authority of a Municipal Borough, I am indebted to the County Medical Officer of Health, Dr. C. D. L. Lycett, for his permission to append the report on Part III Services under the National Health Service Act 1946 which are delegated to the Swindon Area Sub-Committee. The report on the School Health Services in the Borough is included as a separate report. The purpose of incorporating these three reports under one cover is to enable you to get an overall picture of the health of the Borough. As the programmes of expansion of the Borough under The Town Development Act continues to progress the services provided by the health department have to extend to cover the increasing population. During the year under review the building at Penhill estate has made rapid progress and at 31st December 1954 it housed a total of 4,200 persons in 1340 houses. Included in the total were some 254 families comprising 880 persons who had come from London Boroughs. Although the building of new houses and the rehousing of families from bad property is progressing the problem of slum clearance still has to be faced. In the report of the Senior Sanitary Inspector, reference is made to the survey of slum property that has to be made in connection with the Housing Repairs and Rents Act 1954. The report under this Act has to be submitted to the Minister in August 1955 and the policy with regard to the rehousing of families from the unfit houses will then have to be considered from all angles.