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Kensington 1927

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Kensington]

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Table: TABLE VII.PARTICULARS OF THE STAFF OF THE PUBLIC HEALTH DEPARTMENT AT THE END OF 1927.(as required by Ministry of Health Circular 359).

TABLE VII.

PARTICULARS OF THE STAFF OF THE PUBLIC HEALTH DEPARTMENT AT THE END OF 1927.

(as required by Ministry of Health Circular 359).

Year of Appointment
Medical Officer of Health and Administrative Tuberculosis Officer. James Fenton, M.D., D.P.H.1920
Assistant Medical Officer of Health and Tuberculosis Officer. A. W. K. Picard, M.D.1922
Consultant Medical Officers (Part time).
H. Ronald Carter, M.D. (Treatment of Zymotic Enteritis)1924
Remington Hobbs, M.D., (Consultant Gynaecologist)1926
Reginald C. Lightwood, M.D., M.R.C.P., D.P.H., (Rheumatism Supervisory Clinic)1927
Clerical Staff.
James H. Wilson (Chief Clerk)1900
William Gascoyne1919
John C. Minter1917
John S. Russell1923
Denis C. Page1925
Donald J. Hunt1924
John S. Wheeler1924
Arthur L. Vague1927
Sanitary Inspectors.
*Henry Dawes (Senior Inspector)1893
*Nelson Males1897
*Charles G. Sexton1898
*Thomas Cutting1900
*Edward J. Bennett1901
*George W. McQuinn1901
*Joseph H. Fowles1902
†ohn McDermid1920
¶† Henry W. Walters (Food Inspector)1925
¶† Cecil R. Webb1925
¶† Redmond J. McCarthy ...1926
¶† Ernest L. Peddie1927
Women Health Officers.
Miss E. Mackay1909
Miss F. C. Hargrave1910
‡†* Miss E. Dixon1917
Mrs. E. E. Buck1918
‡†* Miss W. H. E. Whitbread1920
†* Mrs. V. A. Ross1921
‡†* Miss E. M. Law1922
Miss A. E. Haycock1922
†‡ Miss K. M. Roe1926
Health Lecturer.
Mrs. M. Hayman1926
Mortuary Keeper.
William Sutton1907
Disinfecting Staff.
Aibert Nunn (Chief Disinfector)1906
William Cambridge1906
Frank Chillcott1906
George H. I. Harris1914
William Taylor1926
Medicinal Baths Stajf).
H. S. Hutchinson (Superintendent) ...1926
Mrs. R. Webber (Matron)1913
Rat Officer.
Walter E. Weedon1926
Drain Testing A ssistants.
William Clancy1903
Charles H. Coombs1927

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* Certificate of the Royal Sanitary Institute.
†Certificate of the London Sanitary Inspectors Examination Board. ‡ Certified Midwife.
¶Certificate for Meat and other Foods.
All the Women Health Officers have undergone 3 years General Hospital Training and have secured
the certificate of general nursing proficiency.
Exchequer grants equal to half the salary paid are received by the Council in respect of all the
Medical Officers, (with the exception of Dr. Lightwood),the Sanitary Inspectors, the Women Health
Officers, the Health Lecturer and Mr. Russell.