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The service operates on a full-time basis for midwives and at nights, week-ends,
and holidays for Mental Health Staff.
At the end of the year negotiations were proceeding for the use of radio telephones
for a trial period.
MEDICAL ASSESSMENTS
The assessment of medical fitness of new entrants to the Council's service continued
to make heavy demands on medical and clerical time.
A completed medical questionnaire and a satisfactory chest X-ray examination
undertaken within the last twelve months are required of each new entrant.
A full physical examination is carried out in any case of doubt, and on all entrants
to teacher training colleges.
In addition, recommendations as to medical fitness to continue in the Council's
service were made following consultation with the family doctors concerned and
physical examinations.
The number involved over the year was:—
Total number of medical assessments 1,610 (1,636)
Total number of physical examinations 490 (364)
Total number examined for continued service 59 (53)
Total number found unfit for further service 6 (6)
The figures for 1966 are given in brackets.
WATER SUPPLY
All the dwellings in the Borough are supplied from the Metropolitan Water
Board's mains, and I am indebted to Dr. E. Windle Taylor, Director of Water
Examination, Metropolitan Water Board, for the following report:
"1 a) The supply was satisfactory both as to quality and quantity throughout 1967.
b) All new and repaired mains are disinfected with chlorine; after a predetermined
period of contact the pipes are flushed out and refilled; samples of
water are then collected from these treated mains; and the mains are returned
to service only after results are found to be satisfactory.
The quality control from these laboratories is carried out by means of
daily sampling from sources of supply, from the treatment works or well
stations, from the distribution system, and through to the consumer. Any
sign of contamination or any other abnormality is immediately investigated.
c) (i) The Board has no record of the number of structurally separate dwellings
supplied in your area, but the population supplied direct according to the
Registrar General's estimates at 30th June, 1967 was 179,026.
(ii) No houses were permanently supplied by standpipe.
d) No Fluoride was added, and where the fluoride content is indicated in the
analyses it represents the naturally occurring fluoride in the water.
2 a) The supply was derived from the following works :
River Thames via Hampton works.
No new sources of supply were instituted and there were no changes to
the general scheme of supply in your area, except that the Board's wells in
your area were not in use.
The number of samples collected and the bacteriological and chemical
analyses of the supply from the above sources after treatment are shown on
page 53.
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