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the Union House at Edmonton was opened and the infirm
poor were removed from the Hampstead Workhouse the
salary was fixed at £80".
"In 1846 the Board regulated the whole of the medical
salaries for this Union on the previous 3 years and £5 was
taken off the salary". -and- "During the past year the
payment to the Medical Officer has been at the rate of
Is. 7½d. per case including midwifery cases and those of
severe surgery."
In 1879 Dr. Lord was succeeded by Dr. Edmund Gwynn as parttime
Medical Officer of Health, a post which he filled until 1901.
During his term of office the Public Health Department was developed
and much work was done under the Public Health (London) Act, 1891
and the Housing Acts. Dr. Gwynn achieved a high reputation and was
at one time President of the Society of Medical Officers of Health of
England. After his retirement he travelled abroad and in Egypt he
contracted an illness from which he died.
In 1901 when the Metropolitan Borough of Hampstead had been
created Dr. Herbert Littlejohn was appointed as the first full-time
Medical Officer of Health, Dr. Littlejohn, who qualified as M. B.
Ch. M. F. R.C. S. (Edin. ), D.P.H. was the son of Professor
Sir Henry Littlejohn, Medical Officer of Health of Edinburgh.
Dr. Littlejohn was Medical Officer of Health for Scarborough before
coming to Hampstead, He died in 1905 from an accidental overdose
of sulphonal.
Dr. G. F. McCleary, B. A. M. D. ,D. P. H. , was appointed as
Medical Officer of Health in 1906. He was previously Medical Officer
of Health of Battersea. He resigned in 1912 on being appointed as
Chief Medical Officer, National Health Insurance Commissioners for
England.
Dr. Frank Edward Scrase , F. R. C. S. , L. R. C. P. ,D. P. H.,
was appointed as part-time Acting Medical Officer of Health after
the death of Dr, Littlejohn until Dr. McCleary was appointed and he
remained as Deputy Medical Officer of Health during Dr. McCleary's
term of office. In 1912 Dr. Scrase retired from private medical
practice in Hampstead and was appointed as full-time Medical Officer