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Pre-Maternity Clinics:
Medical Officer in Charge—*Miss Mary Kidd, m.b. Lond.).
Dental Clinics:
(In connection with Tuberculosis Dispensary and Maternity and Child Welfare.)
Staffed by The British Dental Hospital, 31, Camden Road, N.W. 1.
Health Visitors:
*Mrs. K. Roche—Cert. Sanitary Inspectors' Examination Board.
*Mrs. I. G. Steward—C.M.B.
*Miss A. Kennedy—Health Visitor's Certificate.
Public Analyst:
A. W, Stokes, p.c.s., p.i.e.
Clerics :
R. E. Forrest, C. W. Francis, *Miss E. Blakeman, R. H. Box, W. Sell.
(Thief Clerk—F. S. Hill.
Medical Officer of Health ; and Administrative Medical Officer, Tuberculosis, and Maternity
and Child Welfare.
*Frank E. Scrase, f.r.c.s* (Eng.), l.r.c.p. (Lond.;, d.p.h. (Lond.).
* Contribution to salary made under Public Health Acts or Exchequer grants.
All the Officers give their whole time to their duties, with the exception of the Tuberculosis
Medical Officer, the Medical Officer in charge of the Pre-Maternity Clinics, and the
Public Analyst.
Section g.
Housing.
During the year under review, continuous effort has been made to
improve and maintain the sanitary conditions of the houses coming
within the purview of the Housing Committee. The principle of
" negotiations " witli owners has been pursued with satisfactory
results.
It is, however, becoming obvious that there is a certain number of
house owners or managers who are not amenable to this form of treatment,
so that it becomes nt cessary to adopt some action which has force
of law behind it, and such question is under consideration by the
Housing Committee.
The most pressing need still is for more housing accommodation ;
but I am as firmly convinced as ever that, before the problem is