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184
1899
part of the Section of the Act already quoted, which lays down
that "a Sanitary Inspector appointed after 1st January, 1895,
shall be the holder of a certificate of such a body as the Local
Government Board may from time to time approve, that he has
by examination shown himself competent for such office." He
presented himself in due course at an examination held by the
Sanitary Institute at Cardiff, and passed it most successfully. This
fact was duly announced to the Local Government Board,
but to the utmost surprise of the Vestry, the Board would
not recognise this certificate for London (although they receive it
for every other place in England), because they had approved of a
Board of Examiners who would grant certificates of fitness for
Inspectors appointed to London Districts.
Nothing daunted, Inspector Young again set to work and
presented himself before the Sanitary Inspectors' Examination
Board for examination in December, 1899. He was again
successful, and again his credentials were forwarded to the Local
Government Board, who this time sanctioned his appointment,
and the Vestry, as a mark of its appreciation of the trouble Inspector
Young had been put to, paid his fees for the second examination.
From the time that he commenced his work to the end of the
year, he inspected the following animals :

The actual meat condemned weighed 4 tons, 4cwt., 1 qrs., 17 lbs.
During the course of his inspection he made 3,042 visits to the
several slaughter-houses, preserved meat factories and stalls.
An interesting case of tuberculosis in a cow came under my
notice in September on the report of the Meat Inspector. It is