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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
St Pancras 1904
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Pancras, London, Borough of]
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Clerical Work.
| No. of Complaints received (communications) | 2221 |
| No. of Certificates of Dangerous Infectious Diseases received | 2096 |
| No. of Notices of Voluntary Drain-work received | 428 |
| No. of Letters, etc., despatched | 4025 |
| No. of Notices of Intention to Register | 173 |
| No. of Notices of Registration | 241 |
| No. of Sets of Advisory Notices as to Infectious Diseases forwarded | 1577 |
| No. of Certificates of Infectious Disease sent to School Teachers | 1321 |
| No. of Intimation Notices issued | 4205 |
| No. of Statutory Notices of intention to proceed served | 1594 |
| No. of Warning Notices of intention to summons sent | 89 |
| No. of Summonses Applied for | 61 |
| No. of Hearings and Adjournments | 69 |
| No. of Meetings of Council | 15 |
| No. of Meetings of Public Health Committee and Sub-Committees held | 59 |
STAFF.
Sir Thomas Stevenson, the Public Analyst, received the honour of Knighthood
from the King.
At Easter Mr. Wm. Mallison ceased to attend to his duties, and later,
resigned, and in July Mr. Powel Coke was appointed Chief Clerk.
Mr. Frederick Alfred Barth resigned in March, 1904 and Mr. Edward John
Dillon was transferred to the position of Inspector of factories, workshops, and
workplaces; Mr. William Love Brown was transferred to the position of
Inspector of Ward 2; Mr. Robert Ernest James, Inspector of Ward 6, and
Mr. George William Adkins, who was appointed a Sanitary Inspector on
April 20th, on account of the resignation of Mr. Barth, was made an Inspector
of Tenement Houses.
Miss Blanche Gardiner, B.A., was engaged in September as a temporary
Inspector for the purpose of making enquiries and carrying out measures for
the prevention of Infantile Mortality, in which work Miss Mary Elizabeth
Bibby, B.A., the permanent Woman Sanitary Inspector had also been partly
engaged since April.
On account of the death of Mr. Samuel Davy, resident caretaker of the
Mortuary Buildings, Coroner's Court, &c., his son, Samuel Nicholas Davy, the
Senior Disinfector, was appointed to succeed him, William Henry Cook was
transferred to the position of Disinfector, and Joseph Roots was engaged as
General Assistant.