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The establishment had been increased by one in July and this
was filled by the appointment of Miss A. M. Lloyd who, however,
resigned in November, thus creating a vacancy which was still unfilled
at the end of the year.
Mr. L. V. Webb resigned his appointment on the clerical staff in
August.
The following 14 temporary officers were placed on the clerical
establishment as from March : Messrs. A. J. K. Green, R. E. Parker,
J. P. Smith, F. A. Chislett, A. D. Briggs, A. K. Gale, the Misses
H. Lamboll, U. King, W. Godwin, M. Graham, E. Giles, J. Eley
and Mrs. E. Elston and Mrs. A. Ellwood.
The courses of training for Student Sanitary Inspectors and
Nursery Nurses at the Wandsworth Technical Institute, instituted
in 1946, were continued throughout 1947 and the duties of instruction
were shared by Messrs. Lambert, Willimott, Standish, Eustace,
Pearce and Massey, and the Misses E. A. Evans, K. M. Evans,
D. Freeman and S. Connor.
INFECTIVE DISEASES.
There has been a decrease in the amount of infective disease
during the year, the number of notifiable diseases having fallen from
4,226 in the previous year, to 3,271. Measles, is mainly responsible
for this decrease, 1,241 cases being reported during the year, compared
with 1,997 in 1946.
25 cases of dysentery have been notified compared with
81 in the previous year. There were no deaths.
Two cases of paratyphoid fever were notified. There were no
deaths.
There were 13 cases of Cerebro-spinal meningitis, with four
deaths, compared with 24 and seven in the previous year.
During the year 75 confirmed cases of poliomyelitis and
polioencephalitis were notified in the Borough and three others were
discovered through post-mortems. With one exception, all these
cases occurred between the months of July and December. There
were four deaths.