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CHAPTER V
ADMINISTRATION, STAFF.
During the year your Medical Officers acted professionally for
the Council in performing 49 clinical examinations of actual or
prospective staff and have provided a number of special reports to the
various Committees of the Council. This helps in securing a
medically sound personnel for all the activities of the Council and
enables special consideration to be given to any unusual incidence of
sickness, thereby maintaining a standard of efficiency difficult without
such a service.
The establishment of the environmental hygiene section of the
Public Health Department has remained static for a considerable
number of years, but concurrent with the operation of the Clean Air
Act, it was found necessary to increase the Inspectorate by one and to
augment the Clerical staffing of the Department.
A scheme of training for Public Health Inspectors suggested by
the Royal Society for the Promotion of Health was approved by the
Ministry, and ultimately recommended to local authorities by their
associations. The Council at its meeting in June, 1960, authorised
increase in the establishment of the Health Department by one
Student Public Health Inspector, as from April, 1961. This sponsored
pupillage will be of value to the Borough in securing the services of a
keen, if inexperienced, young man who wishes ultimately to become
a Public Health Inspector, and will be of value to the Department
during the final years of his pupillage. The Council also may derive
some satisfaction from knowing that they are helping to remedy the
national shortage of Health Inspectors.
A panel of members of the Administration Committee undertook
a general review of establishment during the year, and recommendations
were made in relation to the Public Health Department. For
convenience a table is included which shows the establishment before
these changes occurred and the recommended establishment at the end
of the year under review.
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