[Report 1964] / Medical Officer of Health, Canterbury Borough / City & County.

  • Canterbury (England). City & County Council.
Date:
1964
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Credit: [Report 1964] / Medical Officer of Health, Canterbury Borough / City & County. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    riches care with a confidence that is itself a healing power. During 1964 the public concern about the general standards of public hygiene, caused by the publicity given to the Aberdeen typhoid outbreak created an opportunity for progress that the Council was willing to grasp. Such a boost can get health and hygiene education off the ground and moving faster than all the patient pressure of the public health inspectors, but it is the constant pressure over a long period by the Public Health Department staff that establishes such progress as a permanent improvement. Thus until we can see permanent benefits in public hygiene from the 1964 furore we shall not be satisfied. During the year the Health Department moved to new temporary premises that have given improved working conditions for the office staff, which they well deserve, for they serve the Council and the community faithfully and well, and I am happy to record my thanks to the staff for their dogged conscientious work during a disturbed and busy year. Your obedient servant. MALCOLM S. HARVEY. Health Department, 15a Dane John, Canterbury.