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Wandsworth 1928

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth, Metropolitan Borough]

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101
STAFF.
Details of the staff of the Department in December, 1928,
are given below. All are whole-time officers with the exception
of two of the mortuary keepers. Officers to whose salary no
contribution is made under the Public Health Acts or by Exchequer
grants are marked with *.
Medical Officer of Health:—
F. G. Caley, M.A., M.B., D.P.H.
Deputy M.O.H. and Tuberculosis Officer :—
J. J. MacDonnell, M.B., B.S., D.P.H.
Assistant M.O.H. and Assistant Tuberculosis Officer :—
Vacant.
Dr. A. W. Forrest relinquished his appointment as Deputy
Medical Officer of Health and Tuberculosis Officer in June,
having been appointed Medical Officer of Health for Leyton,
and in September, Dr. MacDonnell, formerly Assistant Medical
Officer of Health and Assistant Tuberculosis Officer, was
promoted to succeed him.
The vacancy created by the promotion of Dr. MacDonnell
had not been filled at the end of the year, but Dr. S. W. Lane
was appointed locum tenens in September and was acting in that
capacity at the end of the year.
The Deputy Medical Officer of Health and Tuberculosis
Officer devotes one half of his time to the general Public Health
duties of the Department, and the other half to his duties as
Tuberculosis Officer. Half of the salary of the appointment
ranks for grant under the Tuberculosis Scheme.
The whole of the salary of the third Medical Officer ranks
for grant under the Tuberculosis Scheme as his work is in connection
with that Scheme.