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(d) He advises the abolition of the office of the Smoke and Transferred
Duties and Slaughter-houses Inspector, and that he should act as
an additional District Inspector.
(e) He advises the abolition of the office of the Dust and Food and
Drugs Inspector; that a new officer be appointed in his place to superintend
the removal of dust, etc., that the present Inspector shall act as
one of the Houses let in Lodgings Inspector, and that the duties under
the Sale of Food and Drugs Acts shall be transferred to the proposed
six District Inspectors.
As regards (a) I am not prepared at present to advise you to
appoint another Houses let in Lodgings Inspector, though I think
it probable that the time will come when, from the number of
premises registered, one Inspector may not be able to efficiently
carry out the work.
As regards (b) I do not at present feel myself justified in
advising you to appoint a female Factory Inspector. You have
only recently appointed a separate Factory Inspector for the
duty, and I have not evidence sufficient before me to justify me
in advising you to at present appoint an additional officer.
As regards (c) I most strongly advise you not to abolish this
office, as an experience of 25 years' public health administration
has convinced me that it is the only plan by which it is practically
possible that a district can be efficiently and systematically
inspected. It is only since there has been a special officer for the
purpose that, practically speaking, any house to house inspection
has been carried out in the Borough.
As regards (d) I cannot advise the abolition of the office of
Smoke Inspector, and I am clearly of opinion that the District
Inspectors, with their numerous other duties, could not efficiently
carry out this work. You are well aware of the success that has
followed the present system in vogue. Nor can I advise that the
transferred duties and slaughter houses be allotted to the District
Inspectors, as I am of opinion that the Smoke Inspector has time
to efficiently and systematically perform them, and that the
District Inspectors could not be relied upon to be able, without
neglecting their other duties, to systematically carry out the work.
As regards (e) I am not prepared to advise you to abolish the
office of Dust Inspector, or to transfer the duties under the Sale
oi Food and Drugs Acts to the District Inspectors, and I am of
opinion that they are not at all likely to be so efficiently performed
as hertofore by such alteration.
Your obedient Servant,
N. C. COLLIER,
Medical Officer of Health