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8.1
MORTUARY SERVICE
The Mortuary at Alcorn Close, Sutton, which is equipped with refrigerated storage and
facilities for post mortem examination, was used to receive 591 bodies during 1972. In
1972 post mortems were performed on 276 bodies admitted from local hospitals, 191
from homes within the Borough, and 124 other ambulance removals.
9.1 OPEN DAY
The Team Leaders took the opportunity on a Saturday morning to welcome to 'The
Lodge' 15 members of the Council and senior officers who were entertained with a short
film on part of the work of the Public Health Inspectors and discussed the work of the
Teams and some of the equipment and methods used by the Service.
10.1 STAFFING
In a Division employing the expertise of nearly 50 people there are always a number of
staff changes. In 1972 the principle changes involved the appointment of Mr. J.P. Dixon
as Assistant Chief Public Health Inspector and Mr. J.W. Reavley as Senior Public Health
Inspector in charge of the Housing Team.
10.2 EXAMINATION SUCCESSES
Mr. Peter Gunnell obtained the Diploma in Atmospheric Pollution
10.3 STUDENT TRAINING
The Pupil Public Health Inspectors employed in the Department successfully passed the
examination at the end of each of their respective academic year. Mr. John Stollery passed
the intermediate examination for the Diploma for Public Health Inspectors.
11.1 ADMINISTRATIVE/CLERICAL SUPPORT
Every matter mentioned in this report at some stage involves the Administrative/Clerical
Section. As the demand for additional Environmental Health Services increases so necessarily
the work of the administrative/clerical officers also increases. In addition, there is a
continuous review of the procedures of the Division, in an attempt to transfer routine clerical
duties away from the professional and technical officers. The efficiency of a field service
depends to no small degree on the calibre of the support that it gets in the office.
No separate reception staff exists and clerical officers process the 5,776 complaints dealt
with by the Environmental Health Services and at the same time respond to many
thousand enquiries on subjects as diverse as smoke control area grants and public control
licences.
Derek A. Eves
Chief Public Health Inspector
The Pest Control cartoon was produced from an idea from the Mortuary staff.
The frontage sheets to each section of the report were produced with the assistance of the
Health Education staff.
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