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Battersea 1921
Report on the health of the Metropolitan Borough of Battersea for the year 1921
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Council, and the appointment has been continued temporarily as a joint
appointment, in view of their satisfactory past services, and the wages fixed
at £2 per week, rooms, gas, coal, etc., free.
STAFF ENGAGED ON TUBERCULOSIS WORK.
The staff engaged on Tuberculosis work in the revised Dispensary Scheme for the Borough, and provisionally approved up to the end of 1921, will, as now constituted, be as follows:—
| Duties. | Name | Qualifications. | Salary. | Time allowed to Tuberculosis work. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Administrative T uberculosis Officer | Gerald Quin Lennane | F.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., L.M., D.P.H. | £ 1,000 | One-eighth* |
| Sanitary Inspector | Miss Judith Round | Sanitary Inspector | 300 | One-third * |
| Tuberculosis Officer | George Macdonald | M.A., M B , Ch.B. | 800 | Whole-time |
| Tuberculosis Nurse | Mabel Schotburgh | Nurse and Health Visitor | 200 & £5 uniform | „ |
| „ | Bridie O'Connor | General Training and Tuberculosis Nursing | „ | „ |
| „ | Christine Thompson | General Training | „ | „ |
| Secretary and Clerk | Lilian Wadham | Health Visitor and Secretarial | 300 | „ |
| Dispenser | Edith Florence Davies | Apothecaries' Hall | £4 2s. 6d. per week | „ |
| Typist | Clarissa Turner | — | £2 4s. Od. per week | „ |
| Caretakers | Horace and Naomi Clements | - | £2 per week. Rooms, gas, coal, &c., free. | „ |
*No charge istnade to this account for these services.
Clerical, disinfection, sanitary inspection and other work in connection
with tuberculosis is carried out by staff of Health Department.
The District Sanitary Inspectors (eight in number) have, up to the time
of the transfer of the Dispensary to the Borough Council, periodically
visited cases of Tuberculosis notified, except those cases being visited bv
the Dispensary in uiies. The amount of time devoted by the Sanitary
Inspectors to Tuberculosis work amounts, in the aggregate, to the whole-time
services of perhaps two Health Visitors. The necessity for the continuance
of this routine duty by the'Sanitarv Inspectors under ihe altered arrangements
as to the Dispensary service is under consideration.
FINANCE.
In London, upon the termination of Sanatorium benefit Tuberculosis
Dispensary Services (including, inter alia, the examination by Tuberculosis
Officers of tuberculous persons, the recommendation of suitable treatment