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So far as staff matters are concerned, there was a marked improvement in the recruitment of
public health inspectors, although some difficulties in recruiting were again experienced in some
other sections of the department.
Theyear 1 970 saw the retirement of four members of the department's staff—Dr. H. S. M. Hadaway,
senior medical officer who had formerly been Deputy Medical Officer of Health to the Paddington
Borough Council; Mrs. M. Vaughan, Centre Superintendent of the City Council's largest M. & C. W.
Centre in Harrow Road; Mr. W. H. Smith, senior administrative assistant; and Mrs. F. H. Rhodes,
inspector of massage and other establishments.
All these officers had given long and faithful service to the City Council and its predecessors and
we wished them well in their retirement, which we hope will be a long, happy and healthy one.
The Department also lost the services of one of the Deputy Medical Officers of Health, Dr. H. E. A.
Carson having been appointed as Medical Officer of Health to the London Borough of Wandsworth.
Prior to the reorganisation in 1965, Dr. Carson had been Medical Officer of Health to the St.
Marylebone Borough Council and although we were sorry to see him go, all the members of the staff
were pleased at his well-deserved re-appointment as a medical officer of health.
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I record with regret the deaths of two members of the department's staff—Mr. R. E. Kean, the
City Council's Chief Dental Officer who died in April, 1970, and to whom I referred in my last Annual
Report; and Mr. L. G. Francis, a senior public health inspector who died in February, 1970.
I have made reference earlier in this introduction to the transfer of certain functions from the
Health Department to the newly formed Social Services Department in April, 1971. The services
transferred were the social work aspects of mental health, day care of children and home help, and
the social work services connected with unsupported mothers and family case work. All these services
are referred to in the pages which follow and the premises concerned are listed on page 10, but they
are now the responsibility of the Director of Social Services.
Finally, it is with real pleasure that I again record my appreciation of the support and encouragement
I have continued to receive from all Members of the Council, and in particular from Members
of the Health and Social Services Committees. I am also grateful to the Chief Officers and members
of the staff of the other Departments for their co-operation and assistance throughout the year; and
especially the members of my own staff who have given loyal and efficient service without which the
City Council's health services could not have been carried on.
J. H. BRISCOE-SMITH
Medical Officer of Health and
Principal School Medical Officer
July, 1971