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Bethnal Green 1925

[Report on the health of the Borough of Bethnal Green during the year 1925]

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Temporary (Part Time) Medical Officers (Maternity and Child
Welfare Centres).
*Mrs. K. Addison, M.B., B.S. *Miss E. F. Iredell, M.D.
*Miss M. M. Basden, M.D., B.8., *Mrs. N. D. Pinkerton, M.B.,B.S.,
F.R.C.S., L.E.C.P. M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., B.Sc.
Clinical Tuberculosis Officers ;
(appointed by the Governors of the City of London Hospital for
Diseases of the Heart and Lungs):
Senior, *H. Tylford Howell, M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., London.
Junior, *F. W. Hamilton, M.B., B.S., London, D.P.H., Oxon.
* The Council receives Exchequer grant towards the salaries of
these Officers.
CHANGES DURING 1925.
Dr. G. E. Oates resigned his appointment as Medical Officer of
Health for the Borough as from the 30th September, 1925, upon
his appointment to a similar office in the Borough of Paddington.
Dr. J. Aspinall Marsden was appointed Acting Medical Officer of
Health from the 1st October, 1925, pending the appointment of a
permanent officer.
During the year Mrs. M. A. Hodgkins, Health Visitor, retired on
superannuation. Miss M. Playle (Health Visitor) and Miss E. E.
Taylor (Midwife) were added to the permanent staff, while Miss
A. A. Page, formerly Health Visitor at Willesden, was appointed to
the additional post as Health Visitor sanctioned by the Ministry of
Health; Messrs. G. E. Gould and W. H. Heron, formerly on the
clerical staff, were appointed Sanitary Inspectors; Mr. F. J. Bryant
resigned his appointment as clerk upon obtaining an appointment
as sanitary inspector in another borough ; Miss L. F. Gavin was
appointed to the new post of Clerk-Dispenser at the Welfare Centre,
and took up her duties on the 11th May.