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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
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The Committee has considered three very suitable
sites in this Borough, one in Clapham, one in Wandsworth,
and one in Putney, for such buildings, and recommend
that the Public Health Committee be permitted to
obtain a preliminary report from the Architect to the
Guinness Trust as to the suitability, probable cost, &c.,
in order to obtain a definite estimate for dealing with
these sites before deciding to recommend such buildings
to the Council.
J. GAY,
Chairman.
7th November, 1901.
The Council have presently under consideration the reports
of the Architects as to sites in Rectory Grove, Clapham, and
Hill's Yard, Wandsworth.
General Sanitary work in 1901.
In the first six months of the year the Public Health Department,
as re-organised after June, did not exist, but the general
sanitary work was efficiently carried out by the Inspectors in the
separate sub-districts.
In June the work was centralised in one office, and the
re-organisation required a large amount of personal supervision
and careful forethought. As this Borough .has the largest area
of any in London, and as the means of direct communication in
the Borough are not at present all that could be desired, it was
with a feeling of some hesitation that centralisation at one head
office was decided on. After a few months' trial, especially after
the re-organisation and increase of the Sanitary Staff, it has been
found that the work can be carried out efficiently, quickly, and
conveniently from one central office. One great advantage is
that I am 111 touch with the daily work of each Sanitary Inspector,
and can thus closely supervise the work of the Department..
As now constituted, this Department comprises the following
staff:—Nine Sanitary Inspectors, each with a separate district;
one Inspector under the Sale of Food & Drugs Act for the whole
Borough ; one chief clerk, two junior clerks, and an office boy.
In addition there are 10 disinfectors, by whom all the disinfecting
after cases of infectious diseases is performed.