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THE WORK OF THE SANITARY INSPECTORS.
Table VI. (appendix) contains a summary of a portion of
the work of the sanitary inspectors. The duties of these officers
are carried out under the supervision of the sanitary committee,
your Vestry having conferred on that body 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 inspectors' districts. The staff
now comprises a chief inspector, six district inspectors, and a
lady inspector of workshops, laundries, &c., whose annual
report will be found at page 97). The two street inspectors
inspect mews to see that your Vestry's regulations as to periodical
removal of stable refuse are duly carried out. The only
change in the staff during the year arose from the appointment
of Mr. Macdonald to the south-east district, vice
Mr. Pettit, chief inspector, relieved from district work. The
inquiry which, in May, 1898, the Local Government Board
announced their intention to make, "into the details of
sanitary administration in the parish "has not yet been held;
but the County Council, by one of their assistant medical
officers of health, last year, made a prolonged investigation as
to " the sanitary condition of Kensington," the main recommendation
arising thereout being for the appointment of
four additional inspectors, three males and one female.
The report did not commend itself to your Vestry, and no
increase to the inspecting staff was made.
Sanitary Inspectors in London Districts.—The
subjoined statement, showing the proportion of inspectors to
population in the several sanitary areas of the metropolis, is
based upon a return issued early in 1899 by the medical
officer of health to the County Council. From it we learn
that at the end of 1898, there was in the City of London,
one male inspector to every 4,424 resident inhabitants.