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Assistants.—Nine assistants for disinfection.
A mortuary keeper.
Caretaker of shelter.
Clerical staff.—Seven clerks and a messenger who also helps in clerical work.
Duties.—The first on the above list of inspectors acts as chief sanitary inspector. He visits all
premises in regard to which it is necessary to serve a statutory notice, and generally supervises and
assists the inspectors in their work. Numbers two to fifteen inclusive are each district inspectors, and
in their respective districts they each perform all duties arising under the Public Health Act (except as
regards houses let in lodgings and workshops) and on Sundays in rotation take samples of milk under
the Food and Drugs Act. Number sixteen is the inspector for workshops, bakehouses, and smoke
nuisances; number seventeen for houses let in lodgings, and number eighteen divides his work between
inspecting houses let in lodgings and obtaining samples for analysis under the Food and Drugs Act;
number 19 devotes his entire time to the inspection of meat and food; and number 20 is an
inspector for workshops, &c., in which females are employed.
The assistants engaged in the work of disinfection are employed as follows—One as engineer
in charge of the disinfecting ovens, two with the vans, one as driver, the other to assist in fetching the
articles, three do the stripping of walls and cleansing and fumigating of rooms, and one distributes
disinfectants at the vestry hall, and occasionally assists in fumigation.
The sanitary inspectors are under the direction and supervision of the medical officer of health.
Scavenging of dustbins and streets—In the surveyor's department there is a superintendent of
dusting and slopping, who supervises the cleansing of roads and scavenging of dustbins, which is done
by men in the employment of the vestry.
Stoke Newington —Population 1901, 51,247.
A medical officer of health (part time appointment). £300 per annum. Half repayable by
County Council.
The staff of sanitary inspectors is as follows—
1. D. W. M., £3 10s. a week; half repayable by County Council.
2. S. H. K., £2 10s. a week; „ „ „
Assistants.—A disinfecting assistant.
Clerical staff.—There is one clerk who is engaged solely in duties arising out of the work of the
public health department.
For purposes of sanitary inspection the borough is divided into two, and one inspector is
allotted to each half. The present arrangements are under trial. It is probable that the services of a
third inspector will be found necessary.
The inspectors are under the supervision and direction of the medical officer of health.
Scavenging of dustbins and streets.—For superintending the scavenging of roads there is a road
foreman under the surveyor, and the Council have appointed four officers whose duty it is to see that
dustbins are regularly cleansed by the contractor who carries out the work.
Hackney—Population 1901, 219,288.
A medical officer of health (whole time appointment). £600 per annum. Half repayable by
County Council.

An additional inspector is also engaged temporarily upon house to house inspection.