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British Food Journal Volume 76 Issue 6 1974

British Food Journal Volume 76 Issue 6 1974 Few will complain that 1974 has not been an eventful year in a number of significant respects, it has made history. Local Government and National Health Services reorganizations are such events. This is indeed the day of the extralarge authority, massive monoliths for central administration, metropolitan conurbations for regional control, district councils corresponding to the large authorities of other days and in a sense, it is not local government any more. As in other fields, the big batallions acquire greater collective power than the total sum of the smaller units, can wield it more effectively, even ruthlessly, but rarely appearing to take into account the masses of little people, the quiet people, who cannot make themselves heard. As expected, new names of authorities are replacing the old new titles for departments and officers, ambitious and highsounding a little grandiose for the tongues of ordinary folk. Another historymaking event of 1974, in the nature of a departmental transfer but highly significant for the course of future events as far as work in the field is concerned, was handing over of the personal health serviceshealth of expectant mothers, babies, children, domiciliary midwifery, the school health services and their mainly medical and nursing personnelfrom local health authorities to the newly created area health authorities. The public health departments over fifty years and more had created them, built them up into the highly efficient services they are. If anything can be learned from the past, new authorities are always more expensive than those they replace they spend freely and are lavish with their accommodation and furnishings. In their first few months of existence, the new bodies have proved they are no exception. News of their meetings and activities in many areas is now scanty even local newspapers which usually thrive on Council newsor quarrelsseem to have been caught on the wrong foot, especially in the small towns now merged into larger units. The public are relatively uninformed, but this doubtless will soon be rectified. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png British Food Journal Emerald Publishing

British Food Journal Volume 76 Issue 6 1974

British Food Journal , Volume 76 (6): 32 – Jun 1, 1974
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Emerald Publishing
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0007-070X
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Few will complain that 1974 has not been an eventful year in a number of significant respects, it has made history. Local Government and National Health Services reorganizations are such events. This is indeed the day of the extralarge authority, massive monoliths for central administration, metropolitan conurbations for regional control, district councils corresponding to the large authorities of other days and in a sense, it is not local government any more. As in other fields, the big batallions acquire greater collective power than the total sum of the smaller units, can wield it more effectively, even ruthlessly, but rarely appearing to take into account the masses of little people, the quiet people, who cannot make themselves heard. As expected, new names of authorities are replacing the old new titles for departments and officers, ambitious and highsounding a little grandiose for the tongues of ordinary folk. Another historymaking event of 1974, in the nature of a departmental transfer but highly significant for the course of future events as far as work in the field is concerned, was handing over of the personal health serviceshealth of expectant mothers, babies, children, domiciliary midwifery, the school health services and their mainly medical and nursing personnelfrom local health authorities to the newly created area health authorities. The public health departments over fifty years and more had created them, built them up into the highly efficient services they are. If anything can be learned from the past, new authorities are always more expensive than those they replace they spend freely and are lavish with their accommodation and furnishings. In their first few months of existence, the new bodies have proved they are no exception. News of their meetings and activities in many areas is now scanty even local newspapers which usually thrive on Council newsor quarrelsseem to have been caught on the wrong foot, especially in the small towns now merged into larger units. The public are relatively uninformed, but this doubtless will soon be rectified.

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British Food Journal – Emerald Publishing

Published: Jun 1, 1974

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