[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Battersea Borough].

  • Battersea (London, England). Metropolitan Borough.
Date:
[1942]
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    8 Number of dwelling-houses in which defects were remedied after service of formal notices— (i) By owners (1,764 intimation notices complied with) 1,474 (ii) By Local Authority in default of owners 3 Number of separate tenements or underground rooms in respect of which Closing Orders were made (in 1 house) 2 Overcrowding— (a) New cases reported during the year 14 (b) Cases relieved during the year 18 (c) No. of cases on register at the end of the year 1,140 Housing accommodation provided by the London County Council for Battersea families 465 Staff. The appointment of Dr. Shirlaw (recorded in the annual report for 1939) was extended by the Council in January and July for further periods expiring in February, 1941, but the proportion of his time taken up with public health duties was reduced to one fourth instead of one-half as before. Mr. P. Bracking, Grade A Clerk, in the general office of the Health Department, entered the Royal Air Force in November. It is with regret that I have to report the following deaths among the staff of the Department:— Mr. C. A. Hackman, F.I.c., Public Analyst, on 12th December. During the first quarter of 1940 Mr. Hackman's duties were performed (owing to his absence through illness) by his partner, Mr. A. H. Mitchell Muter, f.i.c., who had been appointed public analyst for the purpose. Mr. Hackman returned to duty in April, but in October he wrote saving that his convalescence had proceeded but slowly, and that his doctor in sisted that he should leave London for a time, and asking the Council to appoint his partner, Mr. J. E. Woodhead, an additional Public Analyst for the Borough. The Council did so, but Mr. Hackman's illness proved fatal before the end of the year. He had held his office since June, 1922, and was a highly esteemed and competent Public Analyst. The appointment was not filled until early in 1941. Miss M. H. Wilkie, health visitor, who came into the service of the Council when the work of the Battersea School for Mothers was taken over by the Council in 1935. Miss Wilkie was a very capable and efficient health visitor who was most popular with the mothers among whom she served. Her death in August was preceded by a painful illness of many months' duration. The vacancy was not filled. Mr. and Mrs. Clark, caretakers of the Tuberculosis Dispensary, who (with their only child) were killed in Southlands when that building was partly demolished by an enemy bomb on 17th November. Mr. T. E. Noble, laboratory technician at the Tuberculosis Dispensary, who was a victim of enemy bombing in December at his own home.