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The Appointment of a Second Inspector.
As the Report relating to the duties of Inspectors has been
printed and circulated amongst the Members of the Vestry, it
will be simply necessary for me to make a few brief remarks.
It is estimated that 2200 houses are let out in separate
tenements, that house and rooms require regular systematic
inspection, in order that the Vestry and Medical Officer of Health
may be made acquainted with the actual state of the worst
localities; the records of the visits must also be made upon
the sheets prepared for the purpose ; indeed, books must be
so kept that any Member of the Board may without trouble, see
what Sanitary defects have been discovered, what works have
been done at any period, and in any particular locality. The
work already done during the last few years, has had a most
wholesome influence upon landlord and tenant—thousands of
small jobs and constructive works have been ordered for the
comfort of the latter, and the former has found his lower class of
tenants vastly improved by supervision. If the Vestry agree
that this work is to continue on the system I have endeavoured
to carry out for three years, an intelligent man of good character
must be employed. The Sanitary and Public Health Committee
therefore are unanimously of opinion that such a man can only
be obtained from a class of candidates who are offered a salary
of not less than £100 per annum.
The present Inspector is always fully occupied in attending
to complaints, superintending works, manure wharves, offensive
trades, cow and slaughter houses, and the systematic inspection
of houses in stables and mews. He has never been able to make
any progress in systematic inspections of streets of the tenant
and house population without neo-lectins his other work.