Annual report of the Commissioner of Public Health / Queensland.

  • Queensland. Department of Public Health.
Date:
[1910]
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Credit: Annual report of the Commissioner of Public Health / Queensland. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Weekly lectures are delivered at the Technical College, Brisbane, with practical field demonstrations at places of sanitary interest. Arrangements have been made for printing the lectures with a view to their use by country inspectors and others desirous of qualifying themselves in executive sanitation. It is hoped that other courses of technical sanitary instruction will be organised on similar lines in the near future, together with local arrangements for instruction and examination of provincial candidates for certificates. 5. Office Methods. In view of the necessarily heavy clerical work and the small staff available for its performance, various labour-saving office methods have been designed and introduced with the skilled assistance of the Secretary, Mr. Mellish. These have done away with much redundant writing and copying, and have enabled the time of officers to be set free for other work, whilst securing easier reference for records and documents. G. [Reports, Mf.horahda, Circulars, Etc. The following Reports and Memoranda have, amongst others, been submitted :— 24th November, 1909.—Suggestions for dealing with the spread of typhoid fever outbreaks, and, further, the necessity for retaining the services of a medical officer for treatment of typhoid carriers. 17th January, 1910.—On Peel Island Lazaret. 1st March.—Proposing joint action with the Commonwealth in establishing depots of vaccine lymph at Northern ports. 7th April.—Recommending the establishment of a Northern sub-office for the protection and sanitary betterment of Tropical Queensland. 23rd April.—On a proposal for large scale mosquito destruction with details of organisation required. 13th May.—On proposed site for female leper station at Myora. 13th May.— On medical inspection of schools, with detailed scheme for Queensland (to Department of Public Instruction). 14th June.—On proposed transfer of Bacteriological Institute to control of Commissioner of Public Health. The following Circulars have been issued:— 1st September, 1909.—To Local Authoiities, advising that cerebro-spinal meningitis and anterior poliomyelitis are infectious diseases within the meaning of the Health Act. 14th October, 1909.—To Local Authorities concerned, leallet “ Warning to Parents,” containing suggestions for prevention of ankylostomiasis. 14th February, 1910.—To health officers, requesting declaration required under section 24. 15th February.—To Local Authorities, forwarding Gazette notice suspending section 111 (scales on bakers’ carts). 23rd March.—To Local Authorities, forwarding Regulation Prohibiting Spitting on Footpaths, &c. 1st April.—To Local Authorities, forwarding notice of extension of Parts III. and 1Y. throughout the State. » 13th June.— To registered nurses, information relating to enrolment on roster for emergency work. To merchants, Brisbane, xequesting information as to cost of damage by rats. The following printed matter has been designed for official use:— Disinfection and Disinfectants (pamphlet for use by Local Authorities and public). General Inquiry Form, Infectious Diseases. Sanitary Survey Sheets—(1) Nightsoil Service ; (2) Garbage Removal; (3) Water Supply; (4) Drainage; (5) Disinfecting Arrangements; (6) Rat Infestation and Destruction; (7) Local Sanitary Inspectors—with Index Docket. Notice of Breach of Act or By-laws for notifying Local Authorities. Rat Inquiry Card. Officer’s Weekly Diary Sheet. Inquiry and Detail Cards for Epidemic Disease (Smallpox). “ Gentlemen Will Not Spit” Notices. II.—FOOD INSPECTION AND ADULTERATION. The tables given in Appendices H, J, and M, and the Report of the Government Analyst, will ’llustrate the work of the Department in enforcing food-purity, so far as its legal and financial circumstances have admitted. Over 14G tons of foodstuffs were seized by the inspectors and destroyed as unfit for consumption ; 35 prosecutions were undertaken, and 33 convictions obtained; totalling £199 5s. 2d. in fines and costs. •