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Kensington 1929

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Kensington Borough]

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Table: TABLE VII. PARTICULARS OF THE STAFF OF THE PUBLIC HEALTH DEPARTMENTAT THE END OF 1929. (as required by Ministry of Health Circular 359).

TABLE VII. PARTICULARS OF THE STAFF OF THE PUBLIC HEALTH DEPARTMENTAT THE END OF 1929. (as required by Ministry of Health Circular 359).

Year of Appointment
Medical Officer of Health ind Administrative Tuberculosis Officer.
fames Fenton, M.D., D.P.H.1920
Assistant Medical Officer of Health and Tuberculosis Officer.
A. W. K. Picard, M.D.1922
•Consultant Medical Officers (Part time).
H. Ronald Carter, M.D., (Treatment of Zymotic Enteritis)1924
Remington Hobbs, M.D., (Consultant Gynaecologist)1926
Reginald C. Lightwood, M.D., M.R.C.P., D.P.H., (Rheumatism Super-
visory Clinic)1927
Thomas S. Keith, M.B., B.S. (Lond.), (Bacteriologist)1928
Clerical Staff.
James H. Wilson (Chief Clerk)1900
William Gascoyne1919
John S. Russell1923
Denis C. Page1925
†john S. Wheeler1924
Donald J. Hunt1924
Arthur L. Vague1927
Francis T. Pearce1929
Ronald D. Callis1929
Sanitary Inspectors.
*Henry Dawes (Senior Inspector)1893
*Nelson Males1897
*Charles G. Sexton1898
*Thomas Cutting1900
*Edward J. Bennett1901
*George W. McQuinn1901
*Joseph H. Fowles1902
†john McDermid1920
¶†QtHenry W. Walters (Food Inspector)1925
¶†91 Cecil R. Webb1925
¶†Redmond J. McCarthy1926
Women Health Officers.
Miss F. C. Hargrave1910
‡†*Miss E. Dixon1917
‡†*Miss W. H. E. Whitbread1920
†*Mrs. V. A. Ross1921
‡†*Miss E. M. Law1922
Miss A. E. Haycock1922
†‡*Miss K. M. Roe1926
‡†*Miss I. Culleton1929
‡Miss E. Mogridge1929
Health Lecturer.
Mrs. M. Hayman1926
Mortuary Keeper.
William Sutton1907
Disinfecting Staff.
Albert Nunn (Chief Disinfector)1906
George H. I. Harris1914
William Taylor1926
Walter D, Strong1928
Phillip H. Bowker1929
Medicinal Baths Staff.
A. V. Boddington (Superintendent)1929
Mrs. R. Webber (Matron;1913
Rat Officer.
Walter E. Weedon1926
Drain Testing Assistants.
William Clancy1903
Charles H. Coombs1927
Caretakers, Tuberculosis Dispensary.
Mr. & Mrs. H. Lake1921

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* Certificate of the Royal Sanitary Institute.
†Certificate of tbe London Sanitary Inspectors Examination Board. ‡Certified Midwife.
¶Certificate for Meat and other Foods.
All the Women Health Officers have undergone 3 years General Hospital Training and have secured
the certificate of general nursing proficiency.
Exchequer grants equal to half the salary paid are received by the Council in iespect of all the
Medical Officers, (with the exception of Dr. Lightwood and Dr. Keith), the Sanitary Inspectors, the
Women Health Officers, the Health Lecturer, the Dispensary Caretakers and Mr. Russell.