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Bethnal Green 1902

The Chief Inspector's seventh annual report on the work of the public health and housing department for the year ending December 31st 1902

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Staff of the The record of the year's work is now complete,
Department; and I trust it will be found as satisfactory as
Duties and any that has gone before. The Special ComArrangement.
mittee on Departments having concluded its
labours and permitted the staff to be fixed, it is
permissible to hope that, with certain unsettled elements removed,
we shall now proceed to carry out further useful improvements to
the satisfaction of the Council and the benefit of the Borough at
large. The particulars of the staff, duties, salaries, etc., are as
follows:—
Chief Inspector.—Responsible for whole work of the department
and appointed to execute the Public Health and other
Acts on behalf of Committee. Present salary £337 10s.,
rising by annual increments of £12 10s. to £375. One half
of £250 repayable by L.C.C.
District Inspectors (5)—
„ A. Inspector Richards, present salary £180
„ B. „ Bridel „ „ 170
„ C. „ Ainley „ „ 140
„ D. „ Henley „ „ 190
„ E. „ Weeks „ „ 120
Special Inspectors (4) —
1. Inspector Bare, duties in connection with Dairies,
sheds, and Milkshops Order; Factory and Workshops
Act, Outworkers, etc. Present salary £130.
2. Inspector Rowsell, duties in connection with the Inspection
of Food and Markets; Smoke Nuisances, etc. Present
salary £150.
3. Inspector Jones, duties in connection with the enforcement
of Bye-Laws in respect of New Buildings, Sanitary
Fittings, Drainage, etc. Present salary £130.
4. The fourth officer sanctioned has not yet been appointed
pending some further enquiry into the vexed question
of tenement house registration.