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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 | Overcrowde tenements | Population. | Population in tenements under 5 rooms. | Population in overcrowded tenements. | |||||||||||
| Men. | Women. | ||||||||||||||||
| Hockney | 9 | 1 | 200 | Also receives £26 per annum for duties under Canal Boats Act. | 1,802 | 2,870 | 1,711 | 217 | 12,89* | 6,16< | 1,314 | 463 | Once. | Twelve have each an assigned district, in which they carry out duties arising under the Public Health, Factory and Workshop and Food Adulteration Acts. One of these inspectors performs duties under the Canal Boats Act (for which he gets £26 a year, no part of which is repayable by the London County Council). One is concerned with dairies, cowsheds, milkshops, slaughterhouses and knackers' yards and is also food inspector. Two are engaged upon house-to-house inspection. The inspectors supervise re-construction and alterations of drains, but not in new premises. One woman inspector visits workshops, laundries, etc., where female labour is employed. One woman inspector visits the houses of outworkers. | (a) 1 dust inspector and one assistant. | 4 and 1 messenger | |
| 1 | 174 | ||||||||||||||||
| 1 | 190 | ||||||||||||||||
| 1 | 180 | ||||||||||||||||
| 1 | 170 | (c) 1 mortuary keeper, 1 caretaker and wife for disinfecting station and temporary shelter. | |||||||||||||||
| 2 | 160 | ||||||||||||||||
| 200 | |||||||||||||||||
| 1 | 140 | ||||||||||||||||
| (d) 1 drain-testing assistant, 1 smoke nuisance assistant. | |||||||||||||||||
| 15 | 2 | — | |||||||||||||||
| Hammersmith | 8 | 1 | 180 | 1,689 | 2,868 | 1,723 | 243 | 12,471 | 6,140 | 1,466 | |||||||
| 3,589 | Indefinite. | Four have each an assigned district, in which they are concerned with all duties arising under Public Health (London) Act. One makes a systematic house-to-house inspection of the district. Two are employed on houses let in lodgings. One is employed on duties arising under the Food and Drugs Acts and duties transferred from the London County Council. One is concerned with factories and workshops, and smoke nuisances. One health visitor. | 3 | ||||||||||||||
| 1 | 120 | ||||||||||||||||
| 100 | (b) 1 mortuary keeper. | ||||||||||||||||
| (c) 2 drainage inspectors. | |||||||||||||||||
| 9 | — | 1 | |||||||||||||||
| Hampstead | 1 | *1 | * | 300 | Senior Inspector. | 1,412 | 2,112 | 897 | 108 | 10,243 | 3,026 | 652 | 364 | No fixed number of times. Frequency of inspection is governed by character of houses. | The senior inspector supervises generally, makes special inspections and investigations, and is responsible for work of disinfecting assistants. Four have each an allotted district, in which they are concerned with duties arising under the Public Health Act. One carries out the inspection of slaughterhouses, dairies, factories, workshops and workplaces. He also takes all samples under the | (a) 3 disinfecting assistants. | 3 and 1 clerk draughtsman. |
| 2 | 200 | ||||||||||||||||
| 1 | 180 | (6) 3 drain-testing assistants, one of whom acts as mortuary keeper. | |||||||||||||||
| 1 | 160 | ||||||||||||||||
| 1 | 155 | ||||||||||||||||
| 150 | Also receives £10 per annum for health visiting. | ||||||||||||||||
| *1 | * | 95 | Also receives £30 per annum for health visiting. | Food and Drugs Acts. Two women inspectors visit premises where females are employed and tenement houses. They also inquire into cases of infectious disease. Both work as health visitors, and one visits notified cases of phthisis. | |||||||||||||
| 6 | *2 | * | |||||||||||||||
| Holborn | 1 | 1 | 170 | Including allowance of £25 per annum for residing in district. | 1,176 | 3,447 | 2,693 | 696 | 14,851 | 8,931 | 3,719 | ||||||
| 637 | All houses inspected once. Many more frequently, and in some cases weekly. | Three have each an allotted district, in which they are concerned with duties .arising under the Public Health, Factory and Workshop and Food and Drugs Acts. The woman inspector is engaged on special inspections under the direction of the medical officer, such as factories, workshops, and restaurants where females are employed, outworkers' homes, and visits houses in connection with the prevention of consumption, the non-notifiable infectious diseases, and infant mortality. She also carries out duties under the sale of Food and Drugs Acts. | 3 | ||||||||||||||
| 2 | 185 | ||||||||||||||||
| 140 | |||||||||||||||||
| 3 | 1 | - | |||||||||||||||
| Islington | 1 | 1 | 800 | Chief Inspector. | 1,757 | 3,597 | 2,536 | 458 | 15,227 | 8,928 | 2,589 | ||||||
| Under new bylaws no register is kept. | The number of times varies. | The chief inspector supervises work of staff and visits premises when it is necessary to serve a statutory notice. Fourteen have each an allotted district, in which they are concerned with duties arising under the Public Health Act (except as regards houses let in lodgings and workshops). They also inspect milkshops and dairies and visit ice-cream factories. One inspects workshops, workplaces and bakehouses. Two inspect houses let in lodgings. One carries out duties under the Food and Drugs Acts. One inspects meat, food, cowsheds and offensive trade premises. Two women inspectors visit workshops and out-workers' homes where females are employed, and restaurant kitchens. | (a) 2 permanent and 2 temporary disinfectors. | 8 | |||||||||||||
| 1 | 250 | Meat Inspector. | |||||||||||||||
| 15 | 184 | ||||||||||||||||
| 1 | 178 | ||||||||||||||||
| 1 | 172 | ||||||||||||||||
| 1 | 148 | ||||||||||||||||
| 130 | |||||||||||||||||
| 1 | 100 | ||||||||||||||||
| 20 | 2 | ||||||||||||||||
*Dual appointment approved by Local Government Board.
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