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administration, and the election of an extra officer to carry out
such examinations, will free the Medical Officer of Health for his
outside duties. The change has the approval of the Ministry of
Health in connection with the new Medical Officer of Health's
appointment.
Miss Speakman's remuneration for the new appointment has
been fixed at a commencing inclusive consolidated salary of £300.
rising by £10 annual increments to £350 per annum.
Past records show an average (annually) of 1,000 samples of
all kinds examined bacteriologically in connection with the Council's
Municipal Bacteriological Laboratory by the Council's Medical
Officer of Health personally ; and, in addition, an average (annually)
of 1,000 samples of sputa examined bacteriologically by Miss
Speakman at the Council's Central Tuberculosis Dispensary.
Miss Speakman will still continue to carry out the Dispensary
work in connection with the Council's Central Tuberculosis Dispensary,
and under the supervision of the Council's Tuberculosis
Medical Officer, as required—a duty requiring from 1 to 2 hours
(approximately) daily, excepting Saturdays and Sundays. To this
appointment (part-time) Miss Speakman was appointed by the
Council originally on March 16th, 1916, out of 25 candidates who
applied in reply to public advertisement, her dispensing experience
having been obtained at the Westminster College of Chemistry,
Pharmacy and Botany, Clapham Road ; The Miller (Greenwich)
Hospital, under Miss Ranee, dispenser ; and with private medical
practitioners. Miss Speakman holds the diploma of the Apothecaries
Hall, 1914.