London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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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 1906
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Pancras, London, Borough of]
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Clerical Work.
| No. of Complaints received (communications) | 2012 |
| No. of Certificates of Dangerous Infectious Diseases received | 1406 |
| No. of Notices of Voluntary Drain-work received | 232 |
| No. of Letters, etc., despatched | 3127 |
| No. of Notices of Intention to Register | 4 |
| No. of Notices of Registration | 192 |
| No. of Sets of Advisory Notices as to Infectious Diseases forwarded | 1400 |
| No. of Statutory Notices requiring disinfection | 1400 |
| No. of Certificates of disinfection completed by Sanitary Authority | 1214 |
| No. of Certificates of Infectious Disease sent to School Teachers | 1328 |
| No. of Intimation Notices issued | 4063 |
| No. of Statutory Notices of intention to proceed served | 916 |
| No. of Statutory Notices requiring stripping for vermin | 35 |
| No. of Statutory Notices requiring purification of articles | 0 |
| No. of Warning Notices of intention to summons sent | 82 |
| No. of Summonses Applied for | 70 |
| No. of Hearings and Adjournments | 88 |
| No. of Meetings of Council | 17 |
| No. of Meetings of Public Health Committee aud Sub-Committees held | 72 |
STAFF.
In the early part of the year the Public Health Committee re-arranged the
duties of the Inspectors. To the Special Inspector, Mr. Auger, was allotted a
District (known as the Town Hall District) in which to carry out all the duties
of a Food Inspector, a Workshop Inspector, a District Inspector, and a
Tenement House Inspector, and he was instructed to cease to carry out the
following duties outside the Town Hall District—investigating cases of smallpox
and contacts therewith, inquiring as to the notifications of Port Sanitary
Authorities and attending to special complaints, inspecting underground
bakehouses, offensive trade premises, rag and bone stores, fried fish shops,
effluvia business, and special mattors, and also inspecting disinfected rooms ;
he was further instructed to carry out all the duties of a Sanitary Inspector in
the Town Hall District, also to continue to supervise the work at the Disinfecting
Station and Personal Cleansing Station, which are situated in the
Town Hall District, also to have the duty of accompanying Inspectors in cases
where confirmation of a drain test is necessary.
The District Inspectors were instructed to write their own Diaries and
Indices instead of the Clerks writing them, to cease to write their notices and
continue to leave the Office by 10 o'clock except in special circumstances such
as having to make plans or reports, etc.