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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
The staff at the end of the year was as follows:—
Medical Officer of Health.
Assistant Medical Officer of Health and Tuberculosis
Officer.
Assistant to the Medical Officer of Health for Tuberculosis.
12 male sanitary inspectors.
1 inspector under Sale of Food and Drugs Act.
1 assistant inspector under Sale of Food and Drugs
Act.
1 Rat officer.
3 female sanitary inspectors, two of whom devote onethird
of their time to health visiting, and one wholetime
to tuberculosis work.
4 Health visitors.
6 Clerks and one office boy.
1 Dispenser
1 Clerk
2 Nurses at tuberculosis dispensaries.
1 Engineer and 10 disinfectors at disinfecting station.
1 Whole-time and two part-time mortuary keepers.
The work carried out during the year by the sanitary inspectors
is shown on Tables XXII. and XXIII.
Ten of the male sanitary inspectors each have a special district
allotted to them, in which they carry out all duties under the
Public Health (London) Act, 1891, Housing Acts, and Factory
and Workshop Acts in factories, etc., where men are employed,
and all Orders made under those Acts.
Two male sanitary inspectors devote their whole time to
house-to-house inspections under Public Health and Housing
Acts, and one inspector and an assistant to the Sale of Food and
Drugs Acts.
Two female sanitary inspectors devote two-thirds of their
time to the inspections of factories and workshops where women
are employed, and one-third of their time to health visiting.