Annual Report Of The Chief Medical Officer Of The Department Of Health

The report highlights that, while a new infectious disease has been discovered nearly every year over the past 30 years, there have been very few new antibiotics developed leaving our armoury nearly empty as diseases evolve and become resistant to existing drugs.

Covering all the issues, developments and events to affect the nation's health in 1989 and the first half of 1990, this report indicates an overall improvement in health during the decade 1980-89, although the major burden of preventable illness remains.