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Medical Officer of the London County Council this appointment constitutes a useful
link between the Borough Council's environmental health services, and the personal
health services for which the London County Council is responsible as the Local
Health Authority.
The Council agreed to the re-designation of the Senior Sanitary Inspector and
Deputy Senior Sanitary Inspector, as Chief Sanitary Inspector and Deputy Chief
Sanitary Inspector, as being more appropriate to their respective responsibilities;
and also agreed to the appointment of a Supervisory Sanitary Inspector, with some
supervisory and administrative duties, in view of the considerable establishment of
Sanitary Inspectors necessary for this Borough.
There have been some staff changes, but on the whole both the Sanitary Inspector
and Clerical establishment were fairly well maintained. I have to express my thanks
to the staff of the Department for their work during the year, and in particular to
Mr. W. C. Bartlett, and Mr. B. J. Ashcroft, Chief, and Deputy Chief Sanitary
Inspectors, and to Mr. E. J. Sharp, Chief Clerk.
I am also glad again to have the opportunity of expressing my thanks to the
Public Health and Housing Committees under their respective Chairmen, Councillor
Mrs. F. H. Cantwell, and Councillor D. McArthur Jackson, for their sympathetic
consideration in the many matters I have had to report to them during 1951, matters
in which it was not always easy or straightforward to arrive at the wisest decision.
V. FREEMAN,
Medical Officer of Health.