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In the Report of the Medical Officer, attention is drawn to the necessity
for the appointment of an additional Inspector to meet the increased work
cast upon the Authority by the Public Health (London) Act, 1891. With
our sanction Dr. Collingridge has recently made a temporary appointment at
35s. a week, and we now ask for authority to confirm and continue such
appointment should we consider it desirable to do so, reporting the same to
your Honourable Court.
In consequence of disagreements between the Caretakers at the Hospital it
became necessary to dismiss them at the commencement of the year. We
subsequently appointed Mr. and Mrs. Rayner, and Mr. and Mrs. Hearn to fill
the vacant positions at wages of 25s. and 23s. a week respectively, and they
continue to satisfactorily perform the duties required of them.
The Cholera epidemic has anxiously engaged the attention of your
Committee throughout the vacation and continues to do so, and the several
Orders issued by the Local Government Board are being rigidly carried out
by the Medical Officer of the Port and his Assistants. We have found it
necessary to temporarily augment the medical staff, so that the ordinary work
of sanitary inspection may not suffer on account of the extra vigilance which
is required in the case of ships arriving from Cholera-infected Ports. It will
be our duty before long to bring up a full report to your Honourable Court
with reference to the precautionary measures taken by us to prevent the spread
of infection.
All which we submit to the judgment of this Honourable Court. Dated
this sixth day of September, 1892.
J. N. Pimm.
A. H. Barber.
David Burnett.
Daniel Greenaway.
W. G. Howard.
Thomas Wild ash.
T. G. Beatley.