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SECTION B.—GENERAL PROVISION OF HEALTH
SERVICES.
STAFF.
Information with regard to the staff of the department is contained in a statement
on page 6, as required by Ministry of Health Circular 359. For the purposes of
survey under the provisions relating to overcrowding a number of temporary
assistants were appointed and continued to act until the completion of that part of
the survey with which they were specially concerned. Excluding these, the staff of
the Department consisted of two drainage inspectors, one outdoor superintendent,
one meat and food inspector, seven district inspectors, seven women sanitary
inspectors and health visitors (one engaged exclusively in tuberculosis work and
another on housing), one chief and seven assistant clerks, with, in addition, at the
Tuberculosis Dispensary, a sister and a clerk dispenser, and at the Salisbury Street
Welfare Centre a clerk dispenser.
LABORATORY FACILITIES.
Dr. L. E. H. Whitby, C.V.O., M.C., continues to act as the Council's
Bacteriologist. The work is carried out in the Bland Sutton Institute of Pathology at
the Middlesex Hospital, and details of investigations in relation to (a) the water
of the Council's swimming pools, (b) milk, ice cream and other foods, and (c)
infectious disease, are set forth under the appropriate headings of this report at
pages 45, 58, 61 and 80.
Mr. J. F. F. Rowland, B.A., A.I.C., is the Public Analyst for the Borough, and
his laboratory is situated at No. 133, Gloucester Place, N.W.I. A report on the work
done during 1937, together with a statement of food and drugs analysed and of
samples found to be adulterated, will be found on pages 61—63.
AMBULANCE FACILITIES.
The efficient ambulance service of the London County Council is available in
the Borough for the conveyance of persons suffering from infectious disease, for
cases of accident, sudden illness and for maternity cases. The ambulances of the
County Council may also be utilised, on payment, for private and non-infectious
cases.
NURSING IN THE HOME.
The Paddington and St. Marylebone District Nursing Association continue to
provide adequate nursing services in the home under an arrangement made with the
Council. Table 15 gives particulars of the work carried out in 1937.