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Miss Tootell ceased work for the year on the 22nd November owing to
illness and Miss E. Reddock was taken on as her deputy.
ACCOMMODATION FOR WOMEN OFFICERS.
In May I reported the great necessity of providing further office accommodation
for the women inspectors and thereupon the Works and General
Purposes Committee were instructed to arrange, in consultation with the head
officers, for extended accommodation for the staff generally. This Committee
in May appointed a Sub-Committee to consider the matter.
In June the Works Committee recommended that the Engineer should
take over the offices formerly used by the Overseers and relegate them to his
present small drawing office, but that the Public Health Department's requirements
be met by erecting a temporary building, sandwiched in between my
general office and the east wall of the south committee room. At the same
time the lavatory of the ante-room of the Council Chamber was reserved for the
lady councillors and women inspectors.
In my report of the 7th July to the Public Health Committee, I pointed
out that the arrival of additional inspectors accentuated the overcrowding in the
department and I once again emphasised the necessity of providing more
accommodation. The Committee requested the Council to expedite the erection
of the temporary building referred to.
I submitted a report to the Public Health Committee on the 8th September
pointing out the urgent need for further office accommodation for the women
inspectors and the storage of important records. My colleague the Engineer
also wrote requesting increased accommodation for his department. On the
10th September I addressed a letter to the Council on this matter, a copy of
which I sent to each member of the Council; it was referred to the Works
Committee for consideration. Both items were referred by the Council on the
14th September to the Works Committee.
This Committee advised the Council on the 28th September that the
Engineer be allowed to make the necessary alterations to his own office and
those of the Assistant Superintendent Overseer (which he was taking over), but
that the M.O.H. might have the use of the room formerly used by the staff of
the late Architect.
In October I reported that I had not yet obtained possession of this large
room.