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and the Board would apparently raise no objection to paying one-hall
the salaries for duties so performed.
Wasting
Inspectors on
office work.
The wastefulness of a system that permits technically trained
inspectors to remain in office doing clerical work, instead of being
on their district inspecting premises, is too obvious to need explanation
and it is to the credit of the Council that rather than continue any
apparent difference on this point they have placed Mr. Bilham in
charge of the indoor work, and are paying the whole of his salary without
claim on the Local Government Board.
The result is, that whilst according to all these technicalities there
are two inspectors less (Mr. Jones and Mr. Bilham), there is in actual
fact just the same number of officers who are doing precisely similar
duties as before.
Go on with your
duty.
There is nothing to be angry about, neither is there anything that
needs altering. If it pleases the Government Department to take up
such a difficult and discouraging attitude to a local authority which is
endeavouring to do its whole duty to the best of its ability, we must
allow that department to do so. In the meantime we will get on with our
work, and trust that in due course the Local Government Board will
adopt a more liberal attitude, and recognise the good work that has
been accomplished, and the improvement that is taking place in the
sanitary condition of the Borough.
JOHN FOOT.
Registration of
Coftee Houses,
etc.
For the better protection ot those persons who purchase their
food at coffee houses and similar places your Committee after careful
consideration decided to make a representation to the L.C.C. to the
effect that all places where food is prepared for sale to the public
should be registered, and that the occupiers should be liable for annual
re-registration and made amenable to suitable regulations for the
better inspection and supervision of all such places. The Committee
suggested that the L.C.C. should in one of their General Powers Bills,
insert a clause to obtain the requisite parliamentary sanction.