Registrar, relieving & vaccination Officer

[locksmith]

Whilst looking through the historical directories I discovered that in the 1890s my great granddad was a Registrar of births and deaths (good man ), a school Attendance Officer and a Relieving & Vaccination Officer.

Now I obviously know what the registrar’s job was (helping us I think ), and I guess a school attendance officer was some sort of truancy police. But does anyone know what a Relieving & Vaccination Officer did? And would all of these responsibilities amount to a full time paid job or something extra to the day job?

Simon

['Tricia]

Relieving Officer:  Official of the Poor Law Union to whom the poor or retarded persons in the parish could apply for poor relief

http://a-day-in-the-life.powys.org.uk/eng/social/es_relieving.php

The link refers to Wales but is still interesting

Also

http://www.hertsfhs.org.uk/hfphs46.html

[locksmith]

Thanks Tricia, I guess all those posts were rolled up into some sort of single job; the equivalent of a council job these days maybe. It seems quite a responsible job, I wonder why by 1901 he had moved and was working as a packer in a nursery?

Simon