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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 1907
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Pancras, London, Borough of]
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The following is a tabular statement as to the Staff of the Public Health
Department presented to the Borough Council on the 9th October, 1907
(p. 523):—
"Staff of the Public Health Department.
| Year. | M.O.H. | INSPECTORS. | CLERKS. | Total. | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Permanent. | Temporary. | Permanent. | Temporary. | |||||
| M. | F. | M. | F. | |||||
| 1900 | 1 | 11 | 1 | .. | .. | 7 | .. | 20 |
| 1901 | 1 | 13(1) | 1 | 4(1) | .. | 7 | l | 27 |
| 1902 | 1 | 13 | 1 | 4 | .. | 7 | l | 27 |
| 1903 | 1 | 15(2) | 1 | .. | .. | 7 | 1 | 25 |
| 1904 | 1 | 15 | 1 | .. | 1 | 7 | 1 | 26 |
| 1905 | 1 | 15 | 2(3) | .. | .. | 7 | 1(3) | 26 |
| 1906 | 1 | 15 | 2 | .. | .. | 8 | .. | 26 |
Notes.
(1) 1901.—Two permanent (January, 1901) and four temporary (October. 1901)
Tenement House Inspectors and one Clerk (September, 1901) appointed.
(2) 1903.—Two of the temporary Tenement House Inspectors were made permanent
in November 1902, so that in 1903 there were four permanent Tenement
House Inspectors, the appointment of the other temporary Inspectors
lapsing.
(3) 1905.—The temporary Woman Inspector appointed in September, 1904. was
made permanent in November, 1905, and the temporary Clerk appointed
in September, 1901, was made permanent in November, 1905."
The foregoing summary requires to be supplemented in order to obtain a
full and complete knowledge of the numerous changes that have taken place
in the Inspectorial Staff, and it is necessary to go back two years more in order
to commence at the beginning of the story.
In 1898 there were ten Sanitary Inspectors, namely, eight District Inspectors
(one to each Ward), and two Workshop Inspectors (one of whom was a
woman).
In 1898 and 1899 there was a long Inquiry and prolonged controversy with
the London County Council and the Local Government Board as to the
sufficiency of the staff, the London County Council recommending the start tobe
increased by at least seven Inspectors together with additional clerical
assistance.