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Dust Inspector.
8. On the Medical Officer's Report that Mr. Hale, the
Dust Inspector, was suSering from pronounced nervous debility,
and was not, and was Dever again likely to be fit to discharge
his duties, and that he had been absent nearly 4 months
during the last 18 months, Inspector Hale was asked to tender
his resignation; on his refusal to do so, the Vestry dispensed
with his services.
The Committee did not think it necessary to recommend the
appointment of another Dust Inspector, but, as already pointed
out in this Report, another Sanitary Inspector will shortly be
appointed. The Assistant Sanitary Clerk, referred to in
paragraph 67 of the Medical Officer's Report, was a boy clerk,
at a salary of 7/- a week, and he was superseded in September,
1892, by the present Committee Clerk, Mr. Ellis, and
only kept on temporarily for a few months. So that it is
not correct to say that the Sanitary Staff has been reduced
by two.
It is also important to notice that the Parish has a specially
appointed Food and Drugs Inspector. The duties of this
office in most parishes are now generally carried out by Sanitary
Inspectors, the work of the Sanitary Staff in this Parish is
therefore lightened by this Parish having a separate Inspector
for Food and Drugs.
9. The Committee has spent considerable time in dealing
with other matters and with other reports and suggestions of
the Medical Officer, and in every case where it has been deemed
to be in the interest of the Public Health, his advice has been
acted upon so far as the Committee were advised that they
were legally able to do so.