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the work of the sanitary inspectors.
Tabic VI. (Appendix), contains a summary of the work of
the Sanitary Inspectors for the nine months ended 30th
December, 1895, the date of termination of the registration
year.* The duties of the Inspectors are carried out under the
Sanitary Committee, your Vestry having conferred on that
body, by resolution, power to enforce the provisions of the
Public Health (London) Act, 1891 ; the Housing of the Working
Classes Act, 1890, and the Factory and Workshop Acts,
1878 to 1895. At page 2 will be found a description of the
limits of the Inspectors' districts, as existing at the end of the
year, at which date the vacancy in the South-East district
caused by the resignation of Mr. Abbott, the senior Inspector,
had not been filled up. Of Mr. Abbott I may be permitted to
say, after his seventeen years of faithful work in the parish,
that he was an officer on whom I could always rely, and whose
ability, industry and firmness of character enabled him to
discharge, with success, onerous duties with manifest advantage
to the people of the large and important district in South
Kensington assigned to him by your Vestry.
The Sanitaky Inspecting Staff, at the end of the year,
comprised six inspectors, two street inspectors, and one lady
inspector of workshops, workplaces and laundries where women
are employed. The clerical staff comprises a chief clerk and
three assistant clerks. The disinfector and the mortuary
keeper complete the list of officers in the Public Health Department.
* The General Order of the Local Government Board requires that the
annual report of the Medical Officer of Health should be for the period comprised
in the civil year. The last published report, quá sanitary matters, was
compiled for the parochial year ended March 25th. 1895. It being desirable
that the entire report should now, and in future, cover the same period,
viz . the civil year, the statistics of sanitary work in the present report have
been compiled for a period of nine months only. April to December, 1895,
inclusive.
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