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The By-laws for Houses Let in Lodgings were again
considered by the Sewers and Sanitary Committee, especially
with regard to the definition of the word "landlord," that is,
the person upon whom the duty would devolve of carrying out
the annual cleansing of the premises. As I have before
pointed out, it is a matter of great importance that we should
be able to look to some person of a more responsible holding
than that of a weekly tenancy of the whole house, to carry out
this work, and it was with this idea that I suggested that the
Local Government Board should be asked to make some
alteration. The matter was, however, deferred until after the
election of the new Council.
At the request of the Committee, on October 9th I brought
up a report for the re-organisation of the Sanitary Department.
In view of the change of administration to the Borough
Council this was adjourned, and at the end of the year 1900
was still under consideration.
SANITARY STAFF.
Local Government Board, Whitehall, S.W.,
September 3rd, 1900.
Sir,-I am directed by the Local Government Board to
acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 4th ultimo forwarding a
statement showing the area and estimated population of each of the eleven
districts into which the Vestry of the Parish of Camberwell propose to
divide the Parish for sanitary purposes.
The proposed arrangement involves a reduction in the number of
Sanitary Inspectors, and on comparing the staff employed by the Vestry
with that in the service of the various Sanitary Authorities in the
Metropolis, it will be seen that the population proposed to be assigned to
the Sanitary Inspectors of all except the first and eleventh districts is
considerably above the average population of a Sanitary Inspectors'
district in the Metropolis generally, and this is especially so in the fourth,
fifth and sixth districts. Calculated on the basis of the Metropolitan
average (which is about 17,000 population to each Inspector) the number
of Sanitary Inspectors' districts in the Parish of Camberwell should be
fifteen.
Having regard to the above facts, the Board have considered
whether in the interests of the Parish the Vestry are doing well to reduce
the number of their Sanitary Inspectors. The Board are not aware of the
reasons which have induced the Vestry to make the proposed reduction,
and in asking them to reconsider the matter I am to suggest whether
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