Dorothy Bailey Centre commissioned - city plans to centralise health departments Stabroek News December 19, 1999 The Mayor and City Council on Friday officially commissioned its renovated Dorothy Bailey Municipal Centre and its New Public Health Complex on South Road and Orange Walk. The centre, formerly known as the King George building was opened on November 28, 1931 by the then governor's wife, Lady Densham. Giving a brief history of the centre, Town Clerk, Beulah Williams, said that the building was erected in 1931 at a cost of $6,000. She said that in 1988, the Lions Club of Georgetown did some extensions, and the building was officially handed over to Mavis Been, then mayor of Georgetown. According to her, renovation works began around 1997, with the City Engineer and the chief meat and food inspector, at the time acting administrative head of the Public Health Department, moving vigorously to accomplish the task. She said that today they have a building that houses major sections of their health responsibility, which includes the offices of the medical officer of health, his deputy, maternal and child welfare and the environmental health inspectorate office. She disclosed that they are hoping to acquire the building to the north, which once housed the chest clinic. Their intention is to move the Food Hygiene Section (currently located at Water Street) there and to develop a laboratory and training facility for the environmental health officers and their assistants. Williams further disclosed that Medical and Health Officer, Dr Vibart Shury, was in the process of preparing a five-year plan for the Municipal Public Health Department. The commissioning was attended by Mayor Hamilton Green, who delivered the feature address and Parliamentary Secretary in the Ministry of Local Government, Philomena Sahoye-Shury. A © page from: Guyana: Land of Six Peoples