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STAFF
The following whole-time equivalent personnel comprise the establishment of
the Health Department.
Administrative, Professional and Technical Officers 405
Manual workers 302
707
For their many years of devoted service I record my thanks to those officers who
retired during the course of the year under review:
To Mr. E. Underhill, Chief Dental Officer and Principal School Dental Officer,
who retired officially in November after 35 years, but remained in service in an
advisory capacity for a short period.
To Miss A. Cooper, Senior Administrative Assistant, School Health Service,
after 34 years' service.
To Miss D. A. Watson, after more than 23 years' service as a dental surgery
assistant.
To Mrs. W. Mitchell, Deputy Home Help Organiser, after 21 years' service.
Dr. Gough-Thomas (Principal Medical Officer for Mental Health), Miss A.
Harman (Deputy Principal Mental Welfare Officer) and five mental welfare officers
left the service of the Council during the year, to take up other appointments.
Dr. Monica E. Watkins was promoted and made Senior Medical Officer in the
Mental Health Section. Mr. W. Crossley, Public Health Inspector, was re-appointed
to a position in the Public Health Inspectorate.
The supervisory staff of the Home Help Department was re-organised to include
three posts of Area Home Help Organiser and three posts of Assistant Area Home
Help Organiser.
Miss T. Bamford, Health Visitor, who had been sponsored for a one year course
of training for the Health Education Certificate, was appointed Health Education
Officer on the completion of her course.
One of our recently qualified student health visitors, Miss J. Crouch, was offered
a scholarship by the London Boroughs' Training Committee for training at the Royal
College of Nursing as a health visitor tutor and she has been seconded by the Borough
for the duration of the course.
Once more I regret to report that we were unable to engage the services of an
assistant warden at the recuperative hostel and continued to rely on more temporary
means of relief for the warden.
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