HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolutions - 1961.11.07 - 19741Miscellaneous Resolution November 7, 1961
BY: Mr. Cyril E. Miller
IN RE: REPORT ON HEALTH SERVICES
TO THE OAKLAND COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen:
Prior to the last meeting of the Board, your Health Committee furnished each
member with a copy of a very complete report covering the various services rendered
to the residents of the County by the Health Department.
It should not be necessary for us to take too much of your time to review this
report in detail.
We would like to point out that members of the Health Committee, who have
been very close to the work of the County Health Department and who consult regularly
with Dr. Monroe and his staff, have no reluctance in assuring members of the Board that
the Health Department is doing a most excellent fob in carrying out its many responsibilities
with the facilities available to them.
True, we can find fault with any program, simply because we cannot be perfect in
everything that is undertaken, but if we keep in mind that the Health Department has the
responsibility under the State Law to provide for effective control of communicable diseases
and to furnish immunization free of charge, and that the program undertaken by our Health
Department has resulted in the absence of diphtheria and smallpox, reduced cases of
tuberculosis and whooping cough to a minimum and brought about a gradual reduction in
the number of cases of poliomyelitis, we can appreciate more fully the tremendous service
which the Department is to the people of this County.
Further, when we consider the large number of children in the County who need
and want dental care but who for various reasons, whether they be because of family
financial difficulties or other factors, cannot be furnished with these services by their
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own dentists and the very effective work which is being done by our Health Department
in this program, we should not be too critical if a few families who could well afford
these services chisel free treatment. Those who are able to chisel these services are few
in number and our Health Department makes every effort to screen them out as far as
possible, including the posting of signs indicating eligibility for those for whom the
County maintains the dental clinic.
We should keep in mind the three basic concepts which have guided our Health
Department since its establishment in 1926:
1. To help people to help themselves.
2. To urge families to maintain a personal relationship with a physician of
their choice.
3. To provide for the prevention of disease in order to reduce anxiety, disability,
death and cost of treatment of disease.
MR. CHAIRMAN, I move that the foregoing report be received and placed on file.
HEALTH COMMITTEE