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Inspector's salary. The higher the salary, the better
chance of obtaining the services of a suitable and experienced
Officer, and the less likelihood of having to elect
a candidate who will simply have to be taught her duties.
I would suggest that her duties should be:—
1. Regular supervision of workshops employing
female labour (e.g., dressmaking and millinery establishments,
laundries, etc., to be visited several times
yearly);
2. Regular inspection of sanitary arrangements and
conveniences of shops wherein women and girls are
employed (including the female underground conveniences
in the Parish);
3. Periodical inspection of infants' and girls' schools
and colleges (public and private); more especially in
relation to outbreaks of non-notifiable infectious
diseases (Measles, Whooping Cough, etc.);
4. Visiting the houses of the poor (especially in the
Inner Districts) where the non-notifiable infectious
diseases (which attack chiefly infants and children) e.g.,
Measles, Whooping Cough, Diarrhoea, etc., are known
to exist, with a view to pointing out the proper preventative
measures to be taken in connection therewith;
5. Assisting in purchasing samples under the Food
and Drugs and Margarine Acts; and
6. Such other duties as may be found requisite
from time to time.