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London County Council 1927
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London County Council]
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improvement scheme. The former scheme provides for the accommodation of
some 756 persons, and the latter 3,350 persons.
The subjoined Table shows the number of sanitary officers and health visitors employed by the sanitary authorities in London :—
| Sanitary Inspectors. | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Male. | Female. | Health Visitors. | ||||
| Whole time. | Part time. | Whole time. | Part time. | Whole time. | Part time. | |
| City of London | 23 | - | 1 | - | - | - |
| Battersea | 11 | - | - | 2 | 7 | 2 |
| Bermondsey | 14 | - | - | - | 8 | - |
| Bethnal Green | 11 | - | - | - | 12 | - |
| Camberwell | 11 | 1 | 2 | - | 3 | - |
| Chelsea | 4 | - | 1 | - | 1 | - |
| Deptford | 8 | - | - | - | 6 | - |
| Finsbury | 7 | - | 1 | - | 5 | - |
| Fulham | 9 | - | 1 | - | 6 | - |
| Greenwich | 5 | - | 1 | - | 10 | - |
| Hackney | 18 | - | 2 | - | 16 | - |
| (including 2 Tuberculosis visitors) | ||||||
| Hammersmith | 9 | - | 1 | - | 3 | - |
| Hampstead | 7 | - | 1 | - | 3 | - |
| Holborn | 3 | - | - | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Islington | 20 | - | 2 | - | 9 | - |
| Kensington | 11 | 1 | 5 | - | 4 | - |
| Lambeth | 16 | - | 2 | - | 4 | - |
| Lewisham | 10 | - | 1 | - | 9 | - |
| Paddington | 9 | - | 2 | - | 2 | - |
| Poplar | 10 | - | 1 | - | 9 | - |
| St. Marylebone | 8 | 3 | - | 3 | 4 | 4 |
| (including 1 Tuberculosis visitor) | (including 1 Tuberculosis visitor) | |||||
| St. Pancras | 15 | - | 1 | 6 | 18 | 6 |
| Shoreditch | 12 | - | - | - | 8 | - |
| Southwark | 12 | - | 1 | - | 10 | - |
| Stepney | 18 | - | - | - | 11 | - |
| Stoke Newington | 2 | (8 months only) 1 | - | (4 months only) 1 | 3 | - |
| Wandsworth | 14 | - | - | - | 7 | - |
| Westminster, City of | 11 | - | 1 | - | 7 | - |
| Woolwich | 10 | - | 1 | 2 | 6 | 3 |
| London County, 1927 | 318 | 6 | 28 | 15 | 192 | 16 |
Sanitary
Officers.
Milk and Dairies (Consolidation) Act, 1915.
Samples of milk forwarded to London from places outside the County are now
taken and examined under the provisions of the Milk and Dairies (Consolidation)
Act, 1915. In 1927, 2,305 samples from milk consigned to London railway termini
from 32 counties were submitted for bacteriological examination. In the case of
1,969 samples, the bacteriological examination was completed, and of these 154, or
7-8 per cent, yielded tubercle bacilli as against 4-5 per cent, in 1926.
In accordance with the provisions of the Milk and Dairies (Consolidation)
Act, 1915, information is sent, immediately upon discovery of tubercle infected
samples of milk, to the medical officer of health for the county concerned, who is
responsible for the examination of the cows at the farm whence the sample
emanated.