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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 1905
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Pancras, London, Borough of]
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C lerical W ork.
| No. of Complaints received (communications) | 1933 |
| No. of Certificates of Dangerous Infectious Diseases received | 1628 |
| No. of Notices of Voluntary Drain-work received | 297 |
| No. of Letters, etc., despatched | 3202 |
| No. of Notices of Intention to Register | 321 |
| No. of Notices of Registration | 14 |
| No. of Sets of Advisory Notices as to Infectious Diseases forwarded ... | 1517 |
| No. of Statutory Notices requiring disinfection | 1517 |
| No. of Certificates of disinfection completed by Sanitary Authority ... | 1372 |
| No. of Certificates of Infectious Disease sent to School Teachers | 1369 |
| No. of Intimation Notices issued | 4238 |
| No. of Statutory Notices of intention to proceed served | 921 |
| No. of Statutory Notices requiring stripping for vermin | 0 |
| No. of Statutory Notices requiring purification of articles | 0 |
| No. of Warning Notices of intention to summons sent | 87 |
| No. of Summonses Applied for | 72 |
| No. of Hearings and Adjournments | 70 |
| No, of Meetings of Council | 16 |
| No. of Meetings of Public Health Committee and Sub-Committees held | 73 |
STAFF.
At the commencement of the year, in accordance with the recommendations
of the Re-organisation Committee, the Inspector of Workshops (men) and the
three Inspectors of Tenement Houses were made District Inspectors, and each
allotted one-half of Wards 1, 5, 7, and 8, and all the District Inspectors were
instructed to include amongst their duties the inspection of registered tenement
houses, and workshops and factories where men are employed. Notice was
given to owners, builders, and others that the Sanitary Inspectors can be
interviewed at the Town Hall only between 9 and 9.30 a.m., and instruction
was given to the Inspectors to complete their office work and leave the Town
Hall not later than 10 a.m.
The temporary clerk, Mr. John 0. Ogden, who had been employed during
the previous five years in keeping the registers relating to smoke nuisances,
factories, workshops, bakehouses, restaurant kitchens, tenement houses,
inscribed dwellings, underground dwellings, etc., was in October appointed
on the permanent staff.
Indexes.—In the past it was often found a difficult, tedious, and prolonged
labour to obtain the history of any individual house or premises. It was
recognised that it was first of all necessary to have all returns and records,