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the decreasing number of candidates presenting themselves for examination.
In the few years before the war there was an annual average of
some 300 newly qualified inspectors. During the war years this dropped,
for five of them to below 70, but under the postwar scheme it increased
to over 400 in 1948 and 1949. The number however in 1951 dropped to
153 and in 1952 to 150, and the Examining Board for sanitary inspectors
anticipates a drastic fall in the examination entrants during the next
few years owing to the introduction in 1953 of an extended period of
training. Without therefore a strong inducement to inspectors to come
to the metropolis from the provinces the outlook for obtaining a complete
establishment must remain poor. This bodes ill for the future of
housing standards and other hygienic work in the borough.
In ending the introduction to this report I wish to express my
thanks to the health department staff for their work during the year.
My thanks are also due to the Public Health committee for their
support and guidance in the work done. The committee at the end
of the year was constituted as follows:—
Councillor C. P. Braithwaite (Chairman); Councillor Stoffel
(P. E.) (Vice-Chairman); The Mayor (Alderman G. T. Harman, j.p.);
Aldermen Carter, Mrs. Huggett and Street; Councillors Mrs.
Armstrong, Mrs. Beardwell, Braund, Mrs. Bunce, Mrs. Drapper, j.p.,
Duhan, M.c., Fisher, Fisk, Hasling, Hawes, Mrs. Land, Mrs. Smith
and Stoffel (W. J.).