HEALTH DEPARTMENT

SEE ALSO:

COMBINED DISTRICTS:

MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH

FIRE BRIGADE Reference WC/F for records relating to the ambulance service;

WELFARE DEPARTMENT Reference WC/W: for records relating to the Home Help Service

NOTE: The first County Medical Officer, Dr. William Henderson, was appointed in 1911, under Housing and Town Planning Act 1909. He was to combine this office with that of School Medical Officer for the county and for Kendal. He appears to have issued his first annual report for the county in 1913. From the 4th annual report for 1914 onwards a copy has always been bound in with the County Council Minutes. Dr. Henderson had already been appointed School Medical Officer in 1908 under Education Act 1907 and issued his first annual report, bound in with County Education Committee minutes in 1908. From 1915 onwards the School Medical Officers report was not printed and bound in as before, but a typed copy was made available to committee members.

To date the reports not accounted for are as follows:

County Medical Officer - up to 1914.

School Medical Officer - 1915-1931..

Dr. Henderson retired on 31 December 1939

PLEASE NOTE: records containing personal information are closed for 75 years and records containing medical information are closed for 100 years.