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In addition, a further 6,096 persons received travel vouchers
and billeting certificates, having found their own accommodation
(1) SECTIONALISATION OF AND CO-ORDINATION
IN THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT.
The Department is sectionalised thus:—
Section. 1—Supplies, Finance, etc. (miscellaneous services).
„ 3—Infectious Diseases.
„ 3—Maternity and Child Welfare and 5 Day
Nurseries.
„ 1—Environmental Hygiene (Sanitation, Housing,
Factories, Food, Water, etc.).
„ 6—Civil Defence.
but these sections are not in any sense considered watertight.
They overflow one into the other, and administratively are kept
co-ordinated by constant exchange of information, mutual advice,
discussion, etc., so that the department may always work harmoniously
as a whole.
The distribution of responsibility is in accordance with practical
simplicity rather than by hard-and-fast rules. For example,
the Section (3), dealing mostly with Maternity and Child Welfare,
deals with death statistics, etc., because it obviously deals with
other vital statistics such as the notification of births, and Section
(2), Infectious Diseases, deals with the provision of insulin,
etc., because in the main that section deals with the local medical
profession. The Section (6), Civil Defence, has dealt with
the Borough civil ambulances and the Volunteer Car Pool, because
it dealt with all Civil Defence ambulance matters. Further, the
professional and technical officers' responsibilities extend into all
these sections, some more, some less.
Section 1: Supplies, Finance, etc.—miscellaneous—ordering of
equipment, goods and accounts, all financial matters.
Section 2: Infectious diseases, hospitalisation and domiciliary
visiting, action re school exclusion, etc., tuberculosis, diphtheria
immunisation, food poisoning, etc., bacteriological laboratory specimens,
knti-toxins supplied, scabies and vermin, list of local
medical practitioners, insulin, respirators for persons with respiratory
trouble.
Section 3: Maternity and Child Welfare, notification of births,
Clinic Health Services, Child Life Protection and Adoption of
Children, death returns, disinfection of respirators (war gases).
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