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STAFF.
Mr. R. H. Street, Assistant Sanitary Inspector, joined H.M. Forces
in July, 1941, and was replaced by a Temporary Sanitary Inspector,
Mr. J. G. Plant, who commenced duties on the 13th October, 1941.
Mr. R. H. Billen, a member of the clerical staff who had joined
H.M. Forces in September, 1940, resigned his appointment on the
10th December, 1941. The vacancy on the permanent staff caused by
this resignation has not been filled, a temporary clerk having been
appointed when Mr. Billen joined the Forces.
Miss K. D. Elliott, Clerk in the maternity and child welfare
section of the department, resigned her appointment in April and was
replaced by Miss M. Sharp, who commenced duties in this capacity
on the 2nd June, 1941.
During the year the staff of the Infectious Diseases Hospital was
reviewed and the following new appointments on the permanent staff
established:—Assistant Matron, Night and Ward Sisters. Sister A.
M. Jones was promoted to fill the position of Assistant Matron.
The ambulance driver at the hospital, Mr. M. A. Pearson, having
been called to H.M. Forces, the position was filled by a temporary
ambulance driver.
SANITARY INSPECTION OF THE DISTRICT.
The suspension of routine housing inspections and similar inspections
in accordance with Ministry of Health instructions still continues.
Work in connection with housing has been restricted to remedying
defective conditions in dwelling-houses discovered in the course of
other work, or on complaint.
PREVALENCE OF, AND CONTROL OVER, INFECTIOUS
DISEASES.
Particulars of the incidence and distribution of the cases of infectious
disease notified during the year 1941 are set out in Tables 21-25 in the
Appendix, in which the number of cases removed to hospital and the
number of deaths in the district from these diseases are also given.
It will be seen by reference to the statistics referred to that the
incidence of infectious disease during 1941 was lower than those for
London and for England and Wales as a whole in every case except
whooping cough, which was slightly higher than both.
There were 4 cases of cerebro-spinai fever in 1941 compared with
5 in the previous year. Increase in the incidence of this disease is
common in war-time.
Although the number of cases of diphtheria occurring in the
Borough was higher than usual, the incidence rate for this disease was