Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Battersea]
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Board under the Act; but the Vestry as the Local Authority have
to defray the cost of the prescribed forms, which are required to
be supplied gratuitously, and other expenses incidental to the
administration of the Act.
The following forms were prepared by the Clerk and
approved by the Sanitary Committee:-
(a) Form of certificate of notification to be gratuitously
supplied to any Medical Practitioner residing or
practising within the Parish, as required by the Act, in
books containing 100 forms with counterfoil.
(b) Copy Certificate to be forwarded to the Metropolitan
Asylums Board by the Vestry, as required by the Act,
in books with counterfoil.
(c) Notification to the Librarian and the Head Masters and
Mistresses of Schools as to the existence of cases of
infectious disease, in books with counterfoil.
(d) Register of notifications to be kept by the Inspector of
Nuisances under the direction of the Medical Officers
of Health.
(e) Memorandum for the information of Medical Practitioners
to accompany the forms of certificate above mentioned.
(f) Handbills giving notice to the inhabitants of the
ments of the Act.
In consequence of the additional duties devolving upon the
Sanitary staff in carrying out the provisions of this Act, the
Vestry on the 13th November appointed D. E. Richards to
perform the clerical work in this department at a salary of eight
shillings per week.
Water Supply. The Vestry at their meeting on the 10th April had
under consideration a report by the Sanitary
Committee with reference to a case of diphtheria at a milkshop
within the parish.
The premises were thoroughly inspected by Mr. Oakman,
Medical Officer of Health, and the Inspector of Nuisances, with