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' Isle of Dogs ' divisions be Deputy Inspectors, and the work of such
inspection be carried out under the superintendence of the Medical
Officer.
" By this arrangement the money allowed for the duties of inspection
of canal boats can be equally divided among the Inspectors and
included in their respective salaries.
" Should one of the Inspectors be appointed as an Inspector under
the Canal Boats Act, then the Medical Officer feels that the inspection
of the district of the particular Inspector would suffer if canal
boats are to be properly and efficiently inspected, as an Inspector
cannot be in two places at once, and moreover the appointing of
each Sanitary Inspector as an authorised person under the Canal
Boats Act, will help to bring about the inspections of any other
' vessels ' which may happen to be in the canal or river at the time,
which in other words will be the inspection of non-registered vessels,
a matter which has engaged the attention of the Board for some considerable
time.
' The Canal Boats Act only deals with registered canal boats, and
the officer appointed can only inspect such boats, whereas the Sanitary
Inspector can deal under the Public Health (London) Act, 1891,
section no, with any vessel.
"'(1) For the purposes of this Act any vessel lying in any
river or other water within the district of a sanitary
authority shall (subject to the provisions of this Act with
respect to the Port Sanitary Authority of the Port of
London) be subject to the jurisdiction of that authority
in the same manner as if it were a house within such
district.'
"' (2) The master of any such vessel shall be deemed for the
purposes of this Act to be the occupier of such vessel.'
" By section 141 : 'The expression 'vessel' includes a boat and
every description of vessel used in navigation.'
" Therefore for the good working of these two Acts (the Canal
Boats Act and the Public Health (London) Act) so that all vessels