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Mrs. I. Williams was appointed Tuberculosis Visitor in
November to fill a vacancy caused by the resignation of Miss
Davidson.
The number of Health Visitors engaged in the Department at
the end of the year was 19 for Maternity and Child Welfare and
three for Tuberculosis.
The revised salary scales under the Charter of the National
Joint Council for Local Authorities' Professional, Technical and
Clerical Services, and the Rushcliffe Scale of Salaries for Health
and Tuberculosis Visitors were adopted by the Council in November.
At the same time it was decided to appoint a deputy to
Miss Woods, the Superintendent Health Visitor, and Miss Hancocks
was appointed in this capacity.
In May Miss D. R. Allen and Mr. G. W. Farrell were appointed
rat operatives. Two months later the Council decided to participate
in the Ministry of Food's Special Rat Campaign and the appointment
of six more rat operatives was authorized in November.
Messrs. G. W. Bambrough, A. Goldsmith, W. Alger, F. W. Jeffryes,
J. W. Taylor, and S. J. Fletcher were appointed and commenced
their duties in December.
During the year the Council agreed to a request made by the
Wandsworth Technical Institute to allow their Sanitary Inspectors
and Health Visitors to act as instructors at courses of training for
Student Sanitary Inspectors and Nursery Nurses which the Institute
had been asked to organise. The courses commenced in October
and continued into 1947.
A Sanitary Inspector was required to act as instructor on five
days every week for a total of 15 hours a week. The duties were
shared by Messrs. Lambert, Willimott, Standish, Eustace, Pearce
and Massey.
The course for Nursery Nurses involved six hours' instruction
every week, and this was shared by Miss E. A. Evans and
Miss K. M. Evans.
INFECTIVE DISEASES.
There has been a decrease in the amount of infective disease
during the year, the number of notifiable diseases having fallen from
5,474 in the previous year, to 4,226. Measles is mainly responsible
for this decrease. 1,997 cases were reported during the year, compared
with 2,471 in 1945.
81 cases of dysentery have been notified compared with
314 in the previous year. There were no deaths.
Three cases of typhoid and two cases of paratyphoid fever
were notified. There were no deaths.