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A total of 378. The Slaughter-houses and Cow-sheds have
always been to a certain extent under our inspection and control,
but the remainder only so far as the nuisance clauses of the Public
Health (London) Act, 1891, applied.
It was obvious that the existing staff was quite unable to cope
with this additional work, as all the premises taken over require
constant supervision. The whole subject received anxious consideration
at the hands of the Public Health Committee. The
necessary increase in the staff afforded an opportunity to rearrange
the duties and to make some attempt to deal with Tenement House
Regulations, and also to do something under the outworkers' clauses
of the Factory Act of 1895, which, so far as Bethnal Green is concerned,
have been a dead letter. Eventually recommendations were
sent up to the Council and agreed to, and it was determined to
rearrange the duties of the Food and Markets' Inspector, to appoint
a new officer to this position (vice Mr. Ainley, promoted to a
district), and to appoint two additional inspectors—one to control
the Dairies and Cowsheds, and the other to work the Tenement
House regulations and to inspect the residences of the outworkers
under the Factory Act, 1895.
I congratulate the Council upon their resolution to put these
Tenement House Regulations into force. We shall at least know if
they be worth the paper upon which they are printed, and a fruitful
source of friction between Spring Gardens and Bethnal Green will
be removed.
I have the honour to be, Sir and Gentlemen,
Your very obedient servant,
Medical Officer of Health fur Bethnal Green.