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Premises disinfected and disinfectants supplied 49,966
Cases in which bedding, etc, has been disinfected
or destroyed 17,417
Numbers of articles disinfected or destroyed 128,636
(c) Clerical Staff.
The clerical staff consists of three clerks, assisted by one indoor
Inspector, and although there has been no change in, or
addition to, the personnel of the staff, the work has been reorganised
and re-arranged, so that all the correspondence, etc.,
passes through the Medical Officer's hands, instead of each Inspector
writing his own letters, etc., which used to be the case.
A type-writing machine was supplied to the Department on
April 16th, 1896, and a telephone on July 22nd, 1897, and have
proved of great use. The salaries of the clerks have been raised.
Full details of the clerical work carried out; are to be found
in the Reports of the Medical of Health, 1895-1900.
II.— Office Accommodation.
The increased staff of Inspectors and disinfecting men necessitated
the enlargement of the office accommodation at 333, Kennington
Road, and this was carried out in 1896, by altering and
re-furnishing the old offices, together with the building of an
extra room at the rear of the main building for the sole use of
the Disinfecting Department.
The work in Norwood Ward, on account of new buildings, etc.,
is so much increased that the Sanitary Committee suggested that
a Branch Office in connection with the Sanitary Department
should be opened locally, and on 27th September, 1900, the
Vestry approved the taking of a room at No. 30, Knight's Hill
Road, opposite West Norwood Station, and this office has since
been fitted up and is now in working order.
III.— Reorganisation of Work.
The Parish has been divided into twelve separate districts,
each one under the charge of a separate Inspector, the present