[Report 1923] / Medical Officer of Health, Oxford City.
- Oxford (England). City Council. no2012034102.
- Date:
- 1923
Licence: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Credit: [Report 1923] / Medical Officer of Health, Oxford City. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![PUBLIC HEALTH STALE. The Sanitary Staff consists of . A Medical Officer oJ Health and an assistant, who are also School Medical Officers. A Sanitary Inspector, who^ is Inspector under the Food and Drugs Act, and an Assistant who is Housing Inspector. Both hold the Certificate ol the Royal Sanitary Institute. One Outdoor Assistant. A Senior Health Visitor, fully trained nurse, holding the C.M. B. Certificate and Certificate of the Royal Sanitary Institute. Acts as superintendent of mid¬ wives. Two Assistant Health Visitors, fully trained nurses. Both give part time to the school medical service. One Assistant, fully trained, acting as special Infant Welfare Nurse. One Clerk. HOUSING. Number of houses completed during the year :— (“) Tl>ta] . 57 (b) As part of a municipal housing scheme 18 The work of providing new houses is beset with difficul¬ ties of every sort and progresses slowly, but the increase in the number of houses built by private enterprise is most encouraging. In my report last year I drew attention to the necessity of providing accommodation for a class of the community composed off the aged and feeble and the almost hopelessly lazy and dirty, who occupy the most unsatisfac¬ tory houses in the most unsatisfactory courts and alleys in the City. There is no doubt that good houses tend to have a good effect on the tenants, but we do not live in an age off miracles. I would urge that a much-tried Housing Com¬ mittee should consider the provision of small flats containing a living room, scullery, two bedrooms and a closet, built on](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29942342_0018.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
