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Miss Gladys Miall-Smith, B.Sc., M.B., B.S. Lond., D. P.H., was appointed as Assistant
Medical Officer for Maternity and Child Welfare on March 3rd, and took up her duties on
12th April.
Mr. J. Landen, Sanitary Inspector, was superannuated on 28th July. Mr. Landen
entered the Council's service in 1899, and his retirement was necessitated bv ear trouble, the
result of smallpox, which he contracted some years ago in the faithful performance of his
duty.
Mr. H. G. West, Sanitary Inspector for factories and workshops, who had also been
in the Council's service since 1899, resigned in February to go abroad. Mr. B. H. Thompson,
one of the district sanitary inspectors, was appointed in his place to the post in connection
with factories and workshops. Mr. J. B. Molloy, temporary sanitary inspector, also resigned
in February on being appointed as sanitary inspector in Shoreditch, and Mr. S. W. Capel and
Mr. H. K. Nixon were appointed as sanitary inspectors on March 31st. Miss G. Anthony
was appointed as Sanitary Inspector in March, and Miss G. B. Steggles as a temporary
Health Visitor on January 5th.
Mr. J. W. Knight, Clerk, was transferred to another department in February, and Mr.
T. II. Hague, temporary Clerk, was appointed as Clerk in his place in March. Mrs. F. E.
Henderson was transferred to the department as Clerk in March. In February Miss A. West,
temporary Clerk, resigned, and Miss G. Wood was appointed as temporary Clerk in her
place. Mr. E. Winchester and Mr. E. Rogers were appointed as temporary Clerks in March
and May respectively.
The changes in the Council's staff at the Maternity and Child Welfare Centres are set
out on pages 18-20.
OFFICE ACCOMMODATION.
In a report of the Medical Officer of Health, dated April 15th, 1920, attention was
called to the unsuitability and insufficiency of the accommodation at present at the disposal of
the department, and on 21st April the Public Health Committee resolved that the Parliamentary
and General Purposes Committee be asked to consider this matter. Upon Dr.
Miall-Smith being appointed it was found necessary, owing to lack of accommodation, to
rent an office for her use in the premises of the St. Pancras Dispensary, 30 Oakley Square,
N.W. 1. If suitable premises were obtained for the department outside the Town Hall the
congestion in certain other departments would thereby be considerably relieved.
CHEMICAL AND BACTERIOLOGICAL WORK.
The Borough Council has an arrangement with the Lister Institute of Preventive
Medicine, Chelsea Gardens, S.W. I, for the bacteriological examination at the expense of the
Council of material from St. Pancras cases sent to them through medical practitioners in
regard to diphtheria, tuberculosis, and typhoid fever. The work done in 1920 was as
follows:—
Total. Positive. Negative.
Examination of swabs for B. diphtherias 612 153 459
„ sputum for B. tuberculosis 288 58 230
,, blood for Widal reaction (typhoid, etc.) 13 3 10
Examinations of sputum have also been made at the tuberculosis dispensaries (tee
page 38),