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St Pancras 1918

Report of the Medical Officer of Health for the year 1918

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At the end of the year the normal staff of 15 male and one full-time and
2 half-time female sanitary inspectors was represented by 10 male and 3 fulltime
and 2 half-time female sanitary inspectors.
M iss M. Giles, health visitor and sanitary inspector, resigned on April 6th,
1918, ou appointment else a here, and Miss V. Blaxland was appointed in her
place on May 30th, 1918.
Miss J. Camman was appointed as an additional health-visitor for the
visiting of cases of measles on September 11th, 1913.
The health visitors in the department at the end of the year were 3 wholetime
and 2 half-time. The health visitors attached to the maternity and child
welfare centres and paid by the Borough Council are-referred to on page 19.
Mr. R. Capel was appointed as temporary boy clork in July, 1918.
ADMINISTRATION OF THE FOOD CONTROLLER'S ORDERS.
The male Sanitary Inspectors have continued during 1918 to make the
necessary inspections aud purchases of samples, under the supervision of the
Medical Officer of Health as Enforcement Officer of the St. Tancraa Local
Food Control Committee, for the purpose of securing the enforcement of these
Orders. This work has been done mainly after ordinary working hours. The
details arc set out in the following table:—