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Junior Clerk: R. W. Turner.
Disinfedor and Assistant: J. W. Howell.
Part-time appointments.
Expenditure on appointments so marked is borne entirely
by the rates ; a grant from the Ministry of Health is received in
respect of all others.
Changes in Staff.—By resolution of the Council in March,
1935, Dr. F. D. Ross-Keyt, part-time Medical Officer of Health
was appointed full-time Medical Officer of Health as from 17th
April, 1935, to discharge all the duties of this office in connection
with public health and maternity and child welfare.
Sanction of the Council was given to the following additions
to the staff of the public health department and the posts were
advertised and the following appointments confirmed :—
Mr. R. W. Turner—Junior Clerk as from 1st April, 1935.
Mr. C. V. Frisby (Assistant Sanitary Inspector, Northampton)
Sanitary Inspector as from 20th May, 1935.
PROFESSIONAL NURSING IN THE HOME.
(a) General.—Arrangements are made with the Ranyard
Mission by which the services of two full-time district nurses
are utilised in the borough for general nursing and for the nursing
of children under five years of age. The Borough Council, with the
approval of the Ministry of Health, make an annual subscription
of £50 to the Mission Funds. By means of subscriptions, donations
and other local means, a further £190 was added to this amount
during the year.
In September the increased demands on the district nursing
service had to be met by the provision of a third full-time nurse by
the Ranyard Mission.