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GENERAL SANITATION AND
ADMINISTRATION.
There are on the Staff of the Department a Chief Sanitary
Inspector, a special Meat Inspector, seven ordinary Sanitary
Inspectors, and two Clerks, who devote the whole of their time
to the work of the Department. For purposes of sanitary
inspection and supervision the Borough is divided into six
districts, to which are attached six Inspectors, one to each
district. In his sanitary district each Inspector undertakes
duties under the Public Health and the Sale of Food and
Drugs Acts. Up to the present year there has been no Factory
and Workshop Inspector; but in March, 1902, the Borough
Council appointed one additional Inspector, and his services have
been devoted to factories and workshops, and small-pox work.
There are five men regularly engaged in the work of Disinfection
and the Mortuaries, etc., and in times of epidemic one or two
others have been temporarily employed.
The Canal and Canal Boats.—The Canal which is
situated within the Borough of Finsbury is owned by the
Regent's Canal and Docks Company, and consists of a waterway
of about 5¾ acres, a portion of which has a through communication
with the River Thames on the one hand and the Midlands
on the other.
The major portion of the cut de sue known as the "City Road
Basin," with wharves, warehouses, and factories on either side,
at which boats load and unload merchandise.
The Regent's Canal has two basins in this immediate neighbourhood.
They lie parallel to each other, and are separated
only by the Wharf Road. The most westerly basin is the
" City Road Basin," and that on the easterly side of it, lying
between Wharf Road and Wenlock Road, is the "Wenlock
Basin." It is situated in the Box-ough of Shoreditch, and is the
smaller of the two.