Report of the Medical Officer of Health on the public health and sanitary circumstances of Johannesburg.

  • Johannesburg (South Africa)
Date:
[1913]
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Credit: Report of the Medical Officer of Health on the public health and sanitary circumstances of Johannesburg. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    4G M.O.H. 1912-13 Expenditure. Staff. Tliis work was closely supervised by the Medical Officer of Health, under whose personal direction the proofs of evidence, summonses, subpoenas, indict¬ ments and charge sheets are prepared and handed to the Assistant Public Prosecutor in the Magistrate’s Court. EXPENDITURE OE PUBLIC HEALTH DEPARTMENT. (This does not include Scavenging Expenditure.) 1910-11 1911-12 1912-13 £ £ £ Salaries 13,587 13,603 14,471 Native Wages, Food and Passes 190 165 172 Locomotion GO 7 804 990 Miscellaneous Expenses ... 3,662 3,057 2.964 Cartage... 602 401 618 Isolation Hospital 9 9 99 1,898 2.826 Disinfecting Station 321 420 252 Rents, Rates and Insurance 12G 186 181 Depreciation 2G1 42 33 Smallpox — 1,050* 980 £21,661 £21,032 £23,487 * Including purchase of Motor Van. STALE OE PUBLIC HEALTH DEPARTMENT. A.—-Inspectors.—The following statement shows the number of Sanitary Inspectors employed during the year under notice as compared with the number before the war: — Before War. 1904-6 1906-9 1909-10 1910-11 1911-12 1912-13 Chief Inspector 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 District Inspectors 16 17 14 15 16 16 15 Native Constables with District Inspectors 16 3 2 (1 relief) O ;» (1 relief) 2 (1 relief) 2 2 White Constable 1 — — — i i i Mines Sanitation Inspector — 1 2 2 2 2 3 Infectious Disease Inspector — 9 2 2 2 2 2 Disinfecting Inspector... — l i 2 9 9 2 Licensing Inspector 1 l _ — — — — Food Inspectors 2 i i i l 2 i Food Inspector at Kazerne — l i i l — i Ratcatchers ... Slaughterhouse Inspector — 6 2 2 2 2 2 i 1 i i — — — Health Visitors — — “ — 2 2 Of the 27 White Inspectors, 21 possess the certificate of the Royal Sanitary Institute.