Administration report of the Public Health Department of the City of Port-of-Spain.

  • Port of Spain (Trinidad and Tobago). Public Health Department.
Date:
[1945]
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Credit: Administration report of the Public Health Department of the City of Port-of-Spain. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Leave of Absence Year 1945. Year 1946. Vacation Sick Vacation Sick Officers. Leave Leave Leave. Leave. No. of No. of No. of No. of Days. Days. Days. Days. Ashe, G.—Sanitary Inspector .. — — 168 30 Assing, C.—- do. 112 — — — Babb, F.— .do. .. — — 84 40 Boxill, E.— do. 70 88 — 10 De Four, H.— do. 28 — — 7 Forde, G.— do. 21 — 28 7 Forde, 0. E.—Chief Sanitary Inspector 35 — — — Guppy, N.—Sanitary Inspector 165 • — — — Holdip, M.— do. 21 — 21 — Howard, J.— do. 28 — 28 — Marcano, Dr. G. R.—Medical Officer of Health — 28 250 — Mitchell, T.M.—Chief Clerk 21 — 14 — Parris, J. E.—Overseer 42 — — 7 Pierre, G.—Sanitary Inspector 61 — — — Richards, E.— do. 21 — — — Rivers, F.— do. 84 14 42 — Romain, A.— do. 70 •— 21 — Seon, F.— do. 42 — 42 — Smith, J. V.— do. 21 — •— — Wilson, A.-—Acting Clerical Assistant 42 — 14 — Wilson, I.—Sanitary Inspector — — 21 — Acknowledgements The work of the Public Health Department during the past two years has been carried on under conditions which can only be described as adverse. There has been a great shortage of Sanitary Inspectors due to a general lack of qualified men and to the fact that the scale of salaries paid by the Corporation does not compare favourably with that obtaining in Government. As a result the great majority of the young qualified men who join us and whom we take great trouble to train in our methods leave us after only a few months to enter the more lucrative service of Government. In addition the general shortage of material, the lack of major permanent works in the various districts, none of which have been performed now for a few years, and the universally difficult conditions brought about by the aftermath of war have all contributed to make the work' of the Department more onerous and difficult. My appreciation therefore goes out to all those Sanitary Inspectors who have stood by the Department and who have borne the heat and burden of the day. Without their whole-hearted support the state of the public health must inevitably have deteriorated and we might have been faced with an epidemic of infectious disease. In the year 1946 we lost by retirement Sanitary Inspector Williams who came to us in 1917 from Government—a Sanitary Inspector of wide and varied experience whose loss we deplore. He has had to be recalled to service and at the moment he is once more with us performing splendidly the duties which he has done for many a long year. Both Mr. O. E. Forde, Cert : R. San : I., our Chief Sanitary Inspector and Mr. T. M. Mitchell, Cert : R. San : I., our Chief Clerk continue to give yeoman service and contributed greatly to the smooth working of the Department and the satisfactory state of the public health by the capable and loyal leadership of their respective establishments. The non-pensionable as well as the pensionable staff gave of their best and the harmony and co-operation that have always characterised the working of the two sections of the Department continued unabated during the two years under report. For this I am deeply grateful and I seize this opportunity once more to commend their valuable services to the favourable notice of the Local Authority.