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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
London County Council 1909
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London County Council]
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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 inspector. | Assistants. | Clerical staff. | |||||||||
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| Average per sanitary inspector. | No. of houses let in lodgings on the register | No. of times a year these houses are inspected. | |||||||||||||||
| Inspectors. | Health visitors. | Inhabited houses. | Tenements. | Tenements under 5 rooms. | Overcrow ded tenements. | Population. | Population in tenements under 5 rooms. | Population in overcrowded tenements. | |||||||||
| Men. | Women. | ||||||||||||||||
| Chelsea | 1 | l | 265 | Chief Inspector. | 2,160 | 4,367 | 3,020 | 478 | 18,460 | 9,431 | 2,665 | 583 | Not specially visited, but visited as part of ordinary house-to- house inspec tion. | The chief inspector carries out duties connected with infectious disease and complaints, and obtains samples under the Food and Drugs Acts. Two have an allotted district, in which each is concerned with house-to-house inspection, and inspection under the Factory and Workshop | (a) mortuary keeper, who assists disinfectors when required. | None. | |
| 1 | 170 | ||||||||||||||||
| 1 | 120 | ||||||||||||||||
| 120 | |||||||||||||||||
| Act. They also arrange for the disinfection of clothing and bedding by the disinfecting assistants. The woman inspector is concerned with inspection of workshops and outworkers' homes where female labour is employed. She also makes special investigations, visits mothers of newly-born infants, and inquires into notified cases of tuberculosis. | (6) 2 disinfecting and draintesting assistants. | ||||||||||||||||
| 3 | l | — | |||||||||||||||
| Deptford | 4 | l | 200 | 2,260 | 3,516 | 1,994 | 238 | 15,771 | 7,409 | 1,428 | 273 | Once. | Five have each an assigned district in which they perform the general duties of a sanitary inspector. One is charged with the duties under the Dairies and Milkshops Order, Factory and Workshop Act, Canal Boats Acts, and with the administration of the regulations as to slaughterhouses, knackers' yards, offensive businesses, throughout the borough. One is concerned with infectious disease. All inspectors are qualified to act under the Food and Drugs Acts. One health visitor. | (a) 3 disinfecting assistants. | 1 | ||
| 2 | 185 | ||||||||||||||||
| 1 | 132½ | ||||||||||||||||
| 100 | |||||||||||||||||
| 7 | — | l | |||||||||||||||
| Finsbury | 1 | *1 | * 2 | 250 | Chief Inspector. | 1,031 | 2,677 | 2,279 | 708 | 11,274 | 8,705 | 3,969 | 1,233 | Average twice or three times. | The chief inspector supervises generally. Five have each an allotted district in which they carry out duties im | (a) 2 disinfectors. | 1 chief and 2 junior clerks. |
| 1 | 300 | Meat Inspector, | |||||||||||||||
| posed by the Metropolis Management, Public Health and Food and Drugs Acts, and supervise sanitary and drainage works in old buildings. They also supervise houses let in lodgings and are concerned with smoke nuisances. They take it in turns to inspect the market streets and hawkers' barrows on Saturday evening and Sunday morning throughout the year. One of these inspectors has charge of the canal boat inspection on the Regent's canal, which traverses his district. One is specially concerned with factory and workshop inspection. One is a special meat and market inspector and exercises close supervision over the wholesale dealers in Cow Cross-street, Charterhouse-street and St. John-street, just outside Smithfield. The woman sanitary inspector is specially deputed to visit and inspect homeworkers' premises, workshops where females are employed, kitchen restaurants, and also houses where cases of measles occur. She also arranges for the subsequent disinfection. The two health visitors visit houses where births have recently occurred, and advise mothers as to clothing and feeding their children. They make inquiries into the deaths of infants, and hold infant weighing days at three centres in the borough every week. | (6) 2 keepers of the mortuaries and coroners' courts. One of these assists in disinfecting rooms. The other works the steam disinfector, and his wife attends to those who are temporarily housed in the Council's shelter. | ||||||||||||||||
| 4 | 180 | ||||||||||||||||
| 1 | 170 | ||||||||||||||||
| 1 | 160 | ||||||||||||||||
| 140 | Also receives £10 per annum for health visiting. | ||||||||||||||||
| 100 | |||||||||||||||||
| (c) 1 van driver, who upon occasions assists with disinfection. | |||||||||||||||||
| 8 | *1 | 2 | |||||||||||||||
| Fulham | 1 | l | 200 | Food Inspector. | 2,317 | 4,017 | 2,710 | 293 | 17,161 | 10,170 | 1,861 | 114 | Twice. | Five have each an assigned district, in which they perform all duties arising under the Public Health Act and Factory and Workshop Act. One is employed on duties arising under the Food and Drugs Acts, and in the inspection of places where food is sold or stored. The inspector employed in the supervision of the drains of new houses, also inspects houses let in lodgings and does other special work. The woman inspector is chiefly engaged in the inspection of workshops, etc., where women are employed, but also visits after notification of births. | (a) 4 disinfectors and 1 driver. | 2 | |
| 3 | 180 | ||||||||||||||||
| (6) 1 mortuary keeper. | |||||||||||||||||
| 1 | 145 | ||||||||||||||||
| 1 | 140 | Also receives £40 per annum for new drainage work. | |||||||||||||||
| 1 | 105 | ||||||||||||||||
| 115 | |||||||||||||||||
| 7 | l | — | |||||||||||||||
| Greenwich | 1 | 225 | 2,848 | 3,940 | 2,175 | 240 | 19,154 | 8,252 | 1,589 | 81 | Frequently. | One is concerned with infectious disease. Four have each an allotted district in which they are concerned with duties under the Public Health and Factory and Workshop Acts. | (a) 3 disinfecting assistants. | 2 | |||
| 2 | 200 | ||||||||||||||||
| 1 | 195 | ||||||||||||||||
| 1 | 150 | ||||||||||||||||
| 5 | — | — | |||||||||||||||
*Dual appointment approved by Local Government Board.