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Report of the
Medical Officer of Health.
Municipal Offices,
Kingston-upon-Thames,
March, 1931.
To the Corporation of Kingston-upon-Thames.
Ladies and Gentlemen,
I have the honour to present my Annual Report for
the year 1930.
Circular 1119 (Ministry of Health) directs that although
the Annual Report for 1930 will be a Report of a more simple
character than the full Survey Report which the Medical
Officer of Health was asked to prepare for 1925, it should,
for the following reasons, contain information on certain
matters in more detail than has been given in the Reports for
the last four years, viz.:—
(a) The transfer of the Poor Law functions in pursuance
of the Local Government Act, 1929.
(b) The proposals of the Government in relation to
Housing.
In July, Mr. G. H. Cockell, Clerk to the Public Health
Department, qualified as a Sanitary Inspector, and on
October 1st he was appointed as an additional Sanitary
Inspector.
On 24th November, R. H. Felgate was appointed junior
clerk to fill the vacancy in the office.
On April 1st the administration and duties under the
Children Act, 1908, were taken over from the Poor Law
Authority, and the Health Visitors were designated Infant
Life Protection Visitors for the purposes of the Act.
No additional staff has been engaged for this extra
work.