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London County Council 1909

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London County Council]

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Table: SANITARY OFFICERS.

SANITARY OFFICERS.

Metropolitan borough.Number of sanitary officers.Annual salary on 1st July, 1910.Other details.Census 1901.Houses let in lodgings.Duties of sanitary inspectorAssistants.Clerical staff.
Inspectors.Health visitors.Average per sanitary inspector.No. of houses let in lodgings on the register.No. of times a year these houses are inspected.
Inhabited houses.Tenements.Tenements under 5 rooms.*Overcrowded tenements.Population.Population in tenements under 5 rooms.Population in overcrowded tenements.
Men.Women.
Battersea11†300Chief Inspector.1,8052,9991,85323312,9936,8461,414123Frequently.The chief inspector supervises generally, inspects in all cases of importance and where statutory proceedings are about to be taken, and is specially concerned with combined drainage. Eight have each an assigned district, in which they are concerned with duties under the Public Health Act. They supervise drainage of new buildings, for which they receive an additional £10 yearly. The food inspector takes samples under the Food and Drugs Acts, and inspects slaughterhouses, butchers' shops, sausage factories, ham and beefshops, etc. One inspects factories, workshops and workplaces. One (woman inspector) inspects places employing female labour, and investigates cases of puerperal fever. She also visits the houses of children who are about to be discharged from isolation hospitals after scarlet fever and diphtheria, and inspects houses reported verminous. One (woman inspector) is concerned with duties under Public Health Act, investigates deaths of infants under one year, visits cases of non-notifiable infectious disease, visits children fed from the council's milk depot, and gives instructions to mothers in the feeding and care of infants.(a) 9 disinfecting assistants.6
]180Food Inspector.
(b) 5 drain-testing assistants.
1170
7160
(c) 1 mortuary keeper and 1 temporary assistant.
1130
115Also receives £30 per annum as health visitor
1†85
l110District Inspectors receive in addition £10 per annum for new drainage work.
112+l
Ber- mondsey1l125Food Inspector (also receives £125 per annum as assistant under unsound food regulations). Food Inspector (also receives £211 per annum as assistant under unsound food regulations).1,4382,6432,00639111,8877,8322,339219 at end of 1909.4Eight inspectors have each an assigned district, in which they carry out all the duties arising under the Public Health Act and Factory and Workshop Acts. The inspectors also supervise drainage work reconstruction. One special inspector devotes his whole time to the inspection of food landed at wharves and riverside premises, acting under the Public Health Act, the Unsound Food, and Foreign Meat Regulations. The two food inspectors act under the Sale of Food and Drugs Acts, each having an assigned district extending over half the borough. One of these inspectors acts as deputy inspector to the special wharves inspector, and also devotes a small part of his time to the examination of food under the Unsound Food Regulations. The health visitor has duties under the Notification of Births Act, visits houses after notification of pulmonary tuberculosis, and inquires into deaths of infants.(a) 6 disinfecting assistants.4 and 1 office youth.
1163⅛(ft) 1 mortuary keeper.
(c) 1 shelter caretaker (female).
1185Food Inspector.
3175
3140
2130
105
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Bethnal- green11325Chief Inspector (also receives £75 per annum for other duties).1,4002,8212,37363812,9689,8853,841517Twice in each year.The chief inspector, in conjunction with the medical officer of health, is responsible for the operations of the entire sanitary staff. Six have each an allotted district, in which they are concerned with duties arising under the Public Health Act including the inspection of registered tenement houses. One is concerned with work under the Food and Drugs Acts, the inspection of meat, etc. One makes special visits and inquiries over the whole of the borough. The woman inspector investigates cases of diarrhoea, and other diseases of young children, reports on the sanitary condition of the premises, and visits houses where births have occurred.(a) 1 general assistant and disinfector.6
6200
(b) 3 disinfectors
2190Also receives £6 per annum as health visitor.
(c) 1 mortuary keeper
114
91—
Camber-well11250Food Inspector.2,8214,3832,45631319,9499,0501,924254Once, and a irregular periods.The inspector who carries out work under the Food and Drugs Act is emergency inspector under all Acts of Parliament relating to public health, and is also concerned with smoke nuisances. Eleven have each an allotted district in which they carry out duties arising under the Public Health and Factory and Workshop Acts and on occasions under the Food and Drugs Act. The woman inspector is chiefly concerned with laundries, factories and workshops employing female labour.(a) 1 superintendent and 7 disinfecting assistants.5, in addition to chief clerk, who
7200
2175
1147
(b) 1 mortuary keeper.was formerly a sanitary inspector.
1117
150
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*For the purposes of this report the term "overcrow ded tenements" is applied to those tenements of less than 5 rooms which at the date of the 1901 census were
occupied to the extent of more than two persons per room.
†Dual appointment approved by Local Government Board.