Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[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) | 1902 |
No. of Certificates of Dangerous Infectious Diseases received | 1320 |
No. of Notices of Voluntary Drain-work received | 225 |
No. of Letters, etc., despatched | 2620 |
No. of Notices of Intention to Register | 18 |
No. of Notices of Registration | 12 |
No. of Sets of Advisory Notices as to Infectious Diseases forwarded | 1288 |
No. of Statutory Notices requiring disinfection | 1288 |
No. of Certificates of disinfection completed by Sanitary Authority | 971 |
No. of Certificates of Infectious Disease sent to School Teachers | 1586 |
No. of Intimation Notices issued | 4048 |
No. of Statutory Notices of intention to proceed served | 901 |
No. of Statutory Notices requiring stripping for vermin | 43 |
No. of Statutory Notices requiring purification of articles | — |
No. of Warning Notices of intention to summons sent | 116 |
No. of Summonses Applied for | 49 |
No. of Hearings and Adjournments | 51 |
No. of Meetings of Council | 16 |
No. of Meetings of Public Health Committee and Sub-Committees held | 51 |
STAFF.
In the Annual Report for 1907 an account was given of the changes
which have taken place in the Inspectorial Staff from 1898 to 1907.
In the Annual Report for 1908 an account was given of the resolution of
the Borough Council of the 31st July, 1907, to dismiss a District Inspector,
and the resolution of the Borough Council of the 18th September, 1908, not to
appoint a Sanitary Inspector to fill the vacancy created, and of the correspondence
and inquiry of the Local Government Board upon the subject.
In continuation of the account already given, the following letter was
received from the Local Government Board, dated 5th August, 1909 : —
" Sir,—
"I am directed by the Local Government Board to acknowledge the
receipt of your letter of the 14th ultimo, relative to the arrangements for the
discharge of the duties of Sanitary Inspector in the Borough of St. Pancras.
"The Board direct me to draw attention to their letter of the 8th December
last, in which they stated that it appeared to them that ' the large area of
'Highgate Sub-division and the special character of the New Town area
' therein demand the services of one Inspector.' The Board still adhere to