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Lambeth 1909
Report on the vital and sanitary statistics of the Borough of Lambeth during the year 1909
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The net expenditure upon the maintenance of the Milk Depot, during the year 1909, is stated by the Borough Accountant to have been £315 8s. 8d., viz. :—
| (a) Expenditure | £665 | 18 | 9 |
| (b) Income | £350 | 10 | 1 |
| i.e., Expenditure in excess of Income | £315 | 8 | 8 |
PUBLIC HEALTH OFFICERS' BILL, 1909.
During 1909, the Council had under consideration the
provisions of the Public Health Officers Bill, the main
objects of which are to ensure that none but those properly
qualified shall be appointed as Medical Officers of Health or
Sanitary Inspectors, and to give all such Officers and Inspectors
similar security of their tenure of office to that enjoyed
by Poor Law Medical Officers and Metropolitan
Medical Officers of Health.
The Bill concerns the Metropolitan Borough Councils in
that it affects the existing qualifications for Medical
Officers of Health and Sanitary Inspectors in London, and
provides that a Sanitary Inspector shall be removable from
his office only subject to an appeal to the Local Government
Board.
It is proposed to repeal Section 108, Sub-Section (2) of
the Public Health (London) Act, 1891, which contains provisions
as to the qualifications of Medical Officers of Health
and Sanitary Inspectors, one existing" alternative qualification
being that in the case of a Medical Officer, he shall
have served as the Medical Officer of Health in a district
of 20,000 inhabitants for three consecutive years prior to
1892, and in the case of a Sanitary Inspector, as such
in a similar district for three years prior to 1895. The Bill
proposes in substitution for these qualifications, three years