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Changes in Staff.—Dr. Maitland took over duties from his
predecessor, Professor H. R. Kenwood, in April.
Mr. D. W Matthews, Senior Sanitary Inspector, ceased duties in
April and was subsequently retired on grounds of health. Mr. W. A.
Brown, who had been assistant in the Health Department, took over
his duties in an acting capacity, and was subsequently appointed
Inspector by the Council, in open competition, in October.
Mr. R. F. Rogers, Clerk, had for some years acted as part-time
Sanitary Inspector. The Committee resolved that a third whole
time Inspector should be appointed, and that Mr. Rogers should
act as whole-time clerk, acting also as clerk to the Maternity and
Child Welfare Committee.
Further, it was arranged that Miss H. Reeve, a qualified woman
Sanitary Inspector, should devote one half day per week to the
visiting of outworkers' homes.
These changes were duly approved by the Ministry of Health
and Mr. Alexander was appointed and joined the staff in January,
1928.
PROFESSIONAL NURSING IN THE HOME.
(a) General.—The Ranyard Mission maintain a Nurse,
Miss M. M. Ross, 33, Lavers Road, for nursing in the Borough.
The Council make a donation to the Mission of fifty pounds per
annum, approved by the Ministry of Health, in consideration of
her nursing appropriate cases of children under five. A further
sum of one hundred pounds per annum is also raised locally by
subscriptions, donations, and otherwise, for the Mission, by a
committee (Secretary: Councillor W. S. Alexander) whose work
for the community deserves support.
Nurse Ross attends necessitous cases free, and in other cases
a charge (devoted to the Mission funds) is made according to means.
During 1927 her work included the following:—
Number of visits paid, 5,717; of these, 1,440 were in South
Hornsey Ward.