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Annual Report of the London County Council, 1912.
Clerical staff.—There are five clerks.
Dalies of inspectors.—Five each supervise a district, performing all duties under the Public Health (London)
Act; they take charge of drainage works in existing buildings, and attend to notified cases of infectious disease, but
one also carries out duties under the Canal Boats Act, for which a separate salary is assigned. (N.B.—Drainage works
in new buildings are under the direction of the surveyor).
One has supervision of workshops and work-places and is concerned with the enforcement of the Factory and
Workshop Acts.
Two attend to houses let in lodgings and the enforcement of by-laws under section 94 of the Public Health
(London) Act, 1891.
One has to watch food supplies, and inspect slaughterhouses, cowsheds, dairies, refreshment houses, etc. Icecream
inspection is also carried out by him, and he is inspector under the Sale of Food and Drugs Acts.
The two women inspectors visit all workplaces where women are employed and make enquiries into infectious
diseases not scheduled for notification. They also do health visiting.
Poplar.—Population, 1911—162,449.
A medical officer of health (whole time appointment), £700 per annum.
Eight men inspectors ; one woman inspector ; two health visitors.
4 inspectors £195 per annum.
3 inspectors £194 „
(also receive £1 per annum each
under unsound food regulations)
1 inspector £190 per annum.
1 woman inspector £185 „
1 health visitor £160 „
1 health visitor £100 „
Assistants.—(a) 1 chief and 4 disinfecting assistants ; (b) 5 labourers who assist inspectors ; (c) 1 female attendant
at the Yeo-street shelter and cleansing station, and a non-resident attendant.
Clerical staff.—There are five clerks, one of them a certified sanitary inspector, London.
Duties of inspectors.—Seven have each an assigned district in which they carry out duties under the Public Health
Metropolis Management, Factory and Workshop, Food and Drugs, Canal Boats, Housing and Town Planning Acts,
and the Public Health (Tuberculosis) Regulations. Three of these inspectors act also as assistant officers under the
Unsound Food Regulations.
One visits houses let in lodgings.
The woman inspector visits all places where female labour is employed and sanitary offices of schools for girls.
She also makes enquiries under London County Council General Powers Act as to verminous clothing.
The health visitor is also the Organising Secretary of the Poplar Health Visiting Association, comprising some
60 voluntary workers.
St. Marylebone.—Population, 1911—118,221.
A medical officer of health (whole time appointment), £750 per annum.
Eleven men inspectors (inoluding one temporary inspector); three women inspectors, who also do health
visiting.
1 inspector £183£ per annum
1 inspector £130 „
2 inspectors £180 „
2 inspectors £124 „
1 inspector £163J „
3 inspectors £160 „
1 temporary inspector £110V „
1 woman inspector £157 „
1 woman inspector £127 »
1 woman inspector £65 „
(also receives £6½ per annum for new drainage work).
(also receives £60 per annum as superintendent of the mortuary
and the sanitary conveniences).
(also receive £56 per annum for new drainage work).
(also receives £6½ per annum for new drainage work).
(also receives £13 per annum for health visiting).
(also receives £13 per annum for health visiting).
(also receives £65 per annum for health visiting).
Assistants.—(a) uisintecung assistants ; (D) 1 mortuary keeper; (c) I woman caretaker of shelter ; (d) I Dath
attendant; (e) 1 woman attendant (part time); (/) 1 messenger.
Clerical staff.—One chief and two assistant clerks. Two office boys.
Duties of inspectors.—Five inspectors have each an allotted district in which they carry out all the duties
arising under the Public Health and cognate Acts.
Two inspectors supervise all drainage work, whether reconstructive or new work, but in addition do some work
of a general character.
One food inspector takes samples under the Sale of Food and Drugs Acts.
One makes house-to-house inspections and visits houses let in lodgings.
One supervises the sanitary conveniences, the public mortuary, the work of disinfection, etc.
The temporary inspector acts as dust inspector.
Three women inspectors carry out duties under the Factory and Workshop Acts, the Cleansing of Persons Act,
the Notification of Births Act, inspect schools and inquire into infant mortality and cases of phthisis. All of them
do health visiting.
St. Pancras.—Population, 1911—218,453.
A medical officer of health (whole time appointment), £900 per annum.
Fifteen men inspectors; two women inspectors.
3 inspectors £225 per annum.
10 inspectors £200 „
1 inspector £190 „
1 inspector £140 „
1 woman inspector £150 per annum.
1 woman inspector £110 „
(also receives £35 per annum
for health visiting).
Assistants.—(a) 1 foreman and 3 disinfecting assistants ; (b) I caretaker of the mortuary and coroners court,
and 1 contact shelter attendant and attendant at the cleansing station and children's baths.
Clerical staff.—One chief and seven assistant clerks.
Duties of inspectors.—Thirteen inspectors have each an assigned district in which they deal with infectious
diseases, complaints, drainage and nuisances generally. One of these inspectors also carries out duties under the Food
and Drugs Aot3 and the by-laws regulating slaughterhouses and dairies and the periodical inspection of food in his own
district.
Two inspectors carry out entirely the duties under the Food and Drugs Acts and the by-laws regulating slaughterhouses
and dairies. They also periodically inspect food places. One of these inspectors carries out duties under the
Canal Boats Act'.
Two women inspectors divide between them the inspection of factories, workshops and workplaces where women
are employed. They visit houses where births have occurred, homes of verminous children, and notified cases of phthisis.