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"(o) The expression 'officer of Customs and Excise' includes any
person acting under the authority of the Commissioners of Customs and
Excise;
"(p) The expression 'master,' used in relation to a ship, includes the
officer or other person for the time being in charge or command of the
ship;
"(q) The expression 'Sanitary Authority' means every Port Sanitary
Authority and every Council of a Municipal Borough or other Urban
District, and every Rural District Council whose borough or district
includes or abuts on any part of a Customs port, which part is not
within the jurisdiction of a Port Sanitary Authority ;
"(r) The expression 'the district' means the district of a Sanitary
Authority;
"(s) The expression 'Medical Officer of Health' includes any duly
qualified medical practitioner appointed or employed by a Sanitary
Authority to act in the execution of these Regulations, and any other
person appointed or employed by the Sanitary Authority under these
Regulations to exercise any powers or to discharge any duties assigned
to the Medical Officer of Health ;
"(t) The expression 'Local Authority' means every Council of a
Municipal Borough or other Urban District and every Rural District
Council, not being a Sanitary Authority within the meaning of these
Regulations, and includes the Common Council of the City of London
and every Council of a Metropolitan Borough;
"(u) The expression 'area,' used in relation to a Local Authority,
means the area subject to the jurisdiction of the Local Authority for the
purposes of the Public Health Act, 1875, or of the Public Health
(London) Act, 1891, as the case may be."
The organisation, as outlined in my last Annual Report, has been found to
work satisfactorily, the reduction in area of the various sub-districts has
enabled the Sanitary Inspectors in charge of those districts not only to
satisfactorily continue the sanitary inspection of shipping, but at the same
time to relieve the Food Inspectors from much of the routine work of food
inspection, so that the latter have been able to devote their attention to the
special work and problems which have arisen in consequence of the issue of
the Unsound Food and Foreign Meat Regulations.
The clerical work has increased to such an extent that it has practically
taken up the whole time of one clerk in keeping the records and conducting
the correspondence in connection with food inspection.
The other work has been distributed throughout the office, the junior clerk
being now able to take his full share.