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Report on the Duties of the Sanitary Inspectors.
During the latter part of last year the Sanitary and
Public Health Committee made a Report upon the
duties of the Sanitary Inspectors; the general result
of which was that this large and increasing Parish
required the full services of two Inspectors, each responsible
for his own work; that the labours devolving
upon them were equally important, but that certain
class of duties should be assigned to one Inspector, and
certain other class to the other. It was obvious,
remarked the Committee, that the distribution might
have been effected in another manner, viz., by assigning
a territorial division of the Parish to each Officer and
permitting them to perform all the duties of them.
The Committee allowed my recommendation to prevail
of assigning to each Inspector special duties, except in
particular cases and special emergencies, and I have
additional proof that this arrangement of work was a
judicious one, and without which the same amount of
efficiency could not have been accomplished. Inspector
Clifford has had under his attention upwards of 400
cases of epidemic disease, principally of small pox
and scarlet fever, since January 3rd : the removal of
cases, and frequent visits for carrying out disinfecting
arrangements, and for adopting precautions necessary
to prevent the spread of these diseases occupied
for some weeks during the small pox epidemic, his
whole time, and of course his duties were arduous, and
suspended the systematic inspection of streets and