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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 1910
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Pancras, London, Borough of]
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Clerical Work.
| No. of Complaints received (communications) | 2064 |
| No. of Certificates of Dangerous Infectious Diseases received | 1215 |
| No. of Notices of Voluntary Drain-work received | 283 |
| No. of Letters, etc., despatched | 3167 |
| No. of Notices of Intention to Register | 6 |
| No. of Notices of Registration | 2 |
| No. of Sets of Advisory Notices as to Infectious Diseases forwarded | 1215 |
| No. of Statutory Notices requiring disinfection | 1215 |
| No. of Certificates of disinfection completed by Sanitary Authority | 998 |
| No. of Certificates of Infectious Disease sent to School Teachers | 1636 |
| No. of Intimation Notices issued | 4241 |
| No. of Statutory Notices of intention to proceed served | 812 |
| No. of Statutory Notices requiring stripping for vermin | 57 |
| No. of Statutory Notices requiring purification of articles | 0 |
| No. of Warning Notices of intention to summons sent | 72 |
| No. of Summonses Applied for | 67 |
| No. of Hearings and Adjournments | 69 |
| No. of Meetings of Council | 17 |
| No. of Meetings of Public Health Committee and Sub-Committees held | 45 |
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, and in subsequent
Annual Reports the changes to date.
On January 12th, 1910, Mr. Hugh Alexander Reid was appointed Caretaker
of the Prospect Terrace Dwellings, then about to be opened.
On the 22nd June, 1910, Miss Celia Smith was appointed Sanitary Inspector
in the place of Miss Blanche Gardiner, resigned, and on the 30th November
Miss Celia Smith was also appointed Health Visitor, in accordance with the
Health Visitors (London) Order, 1909. The Public Health Committee had in
view the desirability of being able to call upon the Officer to cover any part of
the field of duties of a Woman Sanitary Inspector and also of those of a
Health Visitor when necessary, and, at the same time, of placing her in such
a position as to enable her to instruct and supervise the services of Voluntary
Health Visitors with greater authority.
The duties of a Women Sanitary Inspector embrace the inspection of day
schools and factories as to sanitary accommodation ; of workplaces, workshops,
domestic work places, home work places, laundries, and restaurant kitchens
where women are employed. In recent years, in addition to the foregoing
duties, Public Health Authorities are paying more and more attention to the