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CLERICAL WORK.
The following figures give an indication of the clerical work done during
1914. Much other clerical work (such as the vital statistics, and the keeping
of notification and other accounts) is also done by the clerical staff.
No. of complaints received (communications) 1685
,, notifications of dangerous infectious disease received 1990
„ ,, reported in daily returns to Metropolitan Asylums
Board 1990
,, ,, „ „ School Teachers 2931
„ „ „ ,, St. Pancras Library 1990
,, advisory notices sent to householders in respect of above
notifications 1990
,, statutory notices served requiring disinfection 1990
,, certificates of disinfection forwarded 1734
,, cases of tuberculosis notified (received: Forms A, B, C, & D) 2057
„ ,, ,, reported in weekly returns to London
County Council '2057
,, advice-cards sent to notified cases of tuberculosis 1014
,, notices of voluntary drainage work received 226
„ drainage plans received 435
,, birth notifications received 4674
„ ,, reported in weekly returns to London
County Council 4674
„ advice-cards re infants' nurture sent to moth 4674
„ general letters received (other than complaints and notices
of drainage work) 2470
,, letters, etc., despatched 5048
,, intimation notices served 3579
„ statutory 1961
,, summonses applied for 52
„ hearings and adjournments 46
,, meetings of Council 15
,, „ Public Health Committee and Sub-Committees 50
STAFF.
Mr. B. H. Thompson, Sanitary Inspector, was called up with the Territorial
Force at the beginning of the war. Mr. P. W. Pottier, Junior Clerk in the