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DEPARTMENTAL.
The amount of work carried out by the department continues to increase, and
there has been shown a complete justification for the additions made to the staff in 1910.
The numbers of the staff remained the same throughout 1911 as at the end of the
previous year, the only change being the appointment of Dr. F. W. Bywater,
Medical Officer of Health, Finchley, as deputy Medical Officer of Health, in place of
Dr. J. R. Prior, who resigned on taking up the post of Medical Officer of Health to
the West Berkshire Combined Districts.
The Staff under the control of the Public Health Committee at the end of the
year consisted of (in addition to the Medical Officer of Health) a deputy Medical
Officer of Health (Dr. Bywater), two drainage inspectors, one outdoor superintendent,
one meat and food inspector, six district inspectors (one—Inspector Hodges—acting
as house to house inspector;, three women sanitary inspectors, one dust inspector,
one chief and three assistant clerks and an office youth.
In addition, the keeper of the public mortuary, the matron and staff of the
shelter and baths, the two disinfectors, the men and women attendants at the
conveniences, and the men employed in flushing the overground conveniences are
also placed under the Committee.
All the officers and members of the staff have worked well and satisfactorily throughout
the year, and in the pages following details will be found of the work done by each.
PROTECTION OF THE FOOD SUPPLY.
The important duties under this head were performed by Inspector George Smith
who continued to act as inspector under the Sale of Food and Drugs Acts, and to
carry out the inspection of premises in which food was sold, stored or prepared, such
as milkshops, hotel and restaurant kitchens, bakehouses, ice cream shops, slaughterhouses,
cowhouses, etc.
Food Inspection.— Regular visits were made by Inspector Smith during the
year to all food premises. The special inspections on Saturday nights and Sunday
mornings by him and certain of the Inspectors possessed of qualifications and
sxperienced in meat examination were regularly continued throughout the year.
Of the unsound food dealt with, a considerable quantity was voluntarily
surrendered by traders and destroyed at their request and expense, a certificate that
this had been done being granted.
The following is a list of the articles voluntarily surrendered for destruction :—
Articles of Food Destroyed as Unsound after Voluntary
Surrender.
681 lbs. beef Quantity of oysters
239 lbs. mutton 1 box roe
70 lbs. bacon 14 boxes kippers
2 pigs (unsound) 666 lbs. fish (haddock, cod, skate,
1 do. (parturient fever) mackerel, hake, plaice, etc.)
1 carcase pork (two sides) 1 case herrings