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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. | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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. | ||||||||||||||||
| Woolwich | 1 | 1 | ‡ | 280 | Chief inspector. | 1,809 | 2,458 | 1,402 | 124 | 11,718 | 5,098 | 773 | 395 | Two or four times a year. | The chief inspector supervises generally. Seven inspectors have each an assigned district in which they perform duties arising under the Public Health Act. They have also some additional duties ; two arc inspectors under the Food and Drugs Acts, and one inspects dairies, cowsheds, and milk shops. Three, who are qualified meat inspectors, in rotation inspect the market, slaughterhouses and principal butchers' shops. One inspects workshops where women are not employed. One woman inspector visits houses let in lodgings, workshops where women are employed and verminous houses. One woman inspector visits houses where births have occurred, and acts as health visitor. Both the women inspectors visit houses from which cases of phthisis, measles, zymotic enteritis, etc., have been notified. | (a) 3 disinfectors. | 4 |
| 6 | 165 | ||||||||||||||||
| 1 | 130 | (b) 3 drainage workmen. | |||||||||||||||
| 140 | |||||||||||||||||
| 1‡ | 85 | Also receives £50 per annum as health visitor. | (c) 1 mortuary keeper. | ||||||||||||||
| (d) 1 manager and 4 assistants at milk depot. | |||||||||||||||||
| 8 | 2 | ‡ | |||||||||||||||
| City of London | 3 | 1 | 300 | Senior inspectors. | 184 | 254 | 157 | 24 | 1,282 | 506 | 139 | 286 | Two are concerned with notified infectious diseases. One is specially engaged in carrying out the provisions of the Sale of Food and Drugs Acts. Three are concerned with duties arising under the Public Health Act Three are concerned with duties arising under the Factory and Workshops Acts. Nine inspectors are engaged in meat inspection. Three women inspectors visit workplaces where women are employed and one of these in addition to the ordinary duties of a sanitary inspector visits houses in connection with births and with infant mortality. | (a) 2 assistant inspectors of meat (on probation). | 5 | ||
| 3 | 250 | ||||||||||||||||
| 2 | 180 | Assistant to inspectors. | |||||||||||||||
| 1 | 100 | ||||||||||||||||
| 1 | 450 | Veterinarv inspector. | (b) 1 matron at shelter. | ||||||||||||||
| 1 | 350 | Senior meat inspector. | |||||||||||||||
| 3 | 250 | Meat inspectors. | (c) 1 mortuary keeper. | ||||||||||||||
| 1 | 225 | Meat inspector. | |||||||||||||||
| 1 | 200 | Meat inspector; | (d) 1 disinfecting assistant. | ||||||||||||||
| 1 | 160 | Meat inspector. | |||||||||||||||
| 1 | 150 | Meat inspector. | |||||||||||||||
| 170 | |||||||||||||||||
| 1 | 150 | ||||||||||||||||
| 1 | 120 | ||||||||||||||||
| 18† | 3 | — | |||||||||||||||
| County of London' | 286 | 41 | 12 | 1,748 | 3,117 | 2,055 | 381 | 13,873 | 7,491 | 2,22 | |||||||
‡Dual appointment approved by Local Government Board,
†Includes nine meat inspectors.