View report page

Several cases of the fouling of Storm Water Sewers have been
traced and steps have been taken to remedy same.
Medical Department.—Conduct of work. On the 14th of
June the following recommendations of the Public Health and
Hospital Committee, with regard to the Health Department, were
passed by the Council :—
" The Committee are of opinion that the Public Health work
" should be directed and supervised by the Medical Officer of
" Health, who should be responsible for the work carried out by
" his staff.
" The Committee gave instructions for the Medical Officer to
" give attendance at the Council's offices for at least one hour on
" each day, to deal with the correspondence, to receive personal
" complaints, and to direct the work of the day. He is on the
" morning of each day to initial the diary kept by the Inspector
" of Nuisances, and to direct the programme of his work for the
" day. He is to visit most of the cases notified of diphtheria,
" typhoid fever, and puerperal fever, and also such cases of scarlet
" fever as, after the inquiries made by the Inspector of Nuisances,
" appear to demand further investigation.
" The Medical Officer is to be able to give to the Committee
" information on matters arising on the Agenda.
" The Committee also gave instructions that the Inspector of
" Nuisances and his assistant should be in attendance at the offices
" between the hours of 9 and 10 a.m. on each day to receive the
" Medical Officer's instructions, and also from 4.30 to 5 p.m., to
" enter up their journals of the day's work."
Also the recommendation that Mr. Samuel Gilbert should, from
the 1st of July, be transferred from the Clerk's to the Medical Officer's
Department.
I remain, Gentlemen,
Your obedient servant,
HENRY CLOTHIER, M.D., Lond.
March 18th, 1898, Medical Officer of Health,