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22 Child Welfare.
PUBLIC HEALTH AND HOSPITAL STAFFS.
The Public Health Department has an Inspector of Nuisances
and two qualified Assistant Sanitary Inspectors, while a Junior
Clerk is about to be added.
Food Sampling is done by the County Authorities.
The Shops Act is administered by one Assistant Inspector, who
reports on the Shops Act and the Public Markets to the Finance
and General Purposes Committee.
Work done under the Housing Act of 1919 is reported to the
Housing Committee; the work under the other Housing Acts
is reported to the Public Health Committee.
The two Health Visitors, who are fully qualified nurses, work
the Notification of Births Act, do Tuberculosis visitation, and work
under the County as regards Maternity and Child Welfare work
and School work.
The Maternity and Child Welfare Centre was initiated by the
Urban District Council in 1914, and taken over by the County in
1917.
Tuberculosis Dispensary and Ward Treatment were also
initiated by the U.D. Council, the first in 1911, and the second in
1913, and taken over by the County in 1914.
The Midwives Act is administered by the County.
The Hospital Staff consists of a matron, a sister, 7 nurses
7 domestics, and porter and portress, with gardener, boiler
attendant, handy man and assistant gardener. Two of these men
are partially disabled ; but the work could be done by three ablebodied
men.