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STAFF AND TRAINING
The following whole-time equivalent personnel comprised the establishment
of the Health Department until 1st April, 1971.
Administrative, Professional and Technical Officers 413
Manual Workers 311
724
With the transfer of certain functions to the recently created Social Services
Department some members of the staff also were necessarily transferred.
Whilst regretting the departure of such staff, several of whom had worked
for many years in the Health Department, I would like to record my
appreciation of their past services and wish them success in the future.
Several long-serving officers retired after many years service: Mr. D.A.B.
Hastings (Deputy Chief Administrative Officer) after no less than 48 years;
Miss M.W. Betteridge (Matron, Fore Street Day Nursery) after 31 years;
Mr. A. Robinson (Shops & Street Trading Inspector) after 24 years;
Mrs. E.M. Jeffrey (Audiology Technician) after 24 years; Mrs. C. Killingback
(Home Nurse) after 22 years; Mrs. E.J. Richards (Clerical Officer) after 21
years; Mrs. M.A. Griffin (Home Nurse) after 17 years; Mrs. G.M. Sharman
(Clerical Officer) after 17 years.
To all those Officers who retired during the year under review I extend my
thanks for their past services.
Dr. I.H. Caddy, after many years' service in the area, resigned on the 12th
September in order to take up an appointment with Surrey County Council.
Dr. Caddy joined the Middlesex County Council (Area 1) in 1951 as an
assistant medical officer and continued in that capacity until her promotion
to Senior Medical Officer in December, 1970. Other officers who resigned
during the year include Mrs. J.F. Nicholas (Group Adviser) and Mrs. K. Fife
(Clerical Officer), the latter to take up an administrative appointment elsewhere
in the Council's service.
With deep regret I have to record the death of Mr. J.T. Lathlean on the
7th March, 1971. Mr. Lathlean, who held an administrative post in the
department, originally joined the Middlesex County Council in 1949.
Medical Assessment and Examination
The London Borough of Enfield is a large employer of many categories of
officers and manual workers.
There are approximately 9,000 persons in the employ of the Borough.
Medical assessments undertaken by the Health Department for all departments
of the Council totalled 2,234.
Pre-Employment Medical Assessments
Teachers
It is a requirement of the Department of Education and Science that all
intending teachers before their entry into training colleges, and all teachers
taking up their first teaching posts other than direct from a training college,
shall be subject to medical examination. Those medically fit in these
circumstances are admitted to a national superannuation scheme at the
commencement of their careers.
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