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(2) That Mr. Weatheritt, now acting as Food and Drugs
Inspector, should be appointed as Sanitary Inspector
for St. Jude's Ward, to discharge therein all the duties
of the office as defined by the Sanitary Officers (London)
Order of 1891, the population of the Ward being estimated
at 15,308, and further to assist the Medical
Officer of Health in supervising and co.ordinating the
work of the other inspectors, together with making
from time to time a systematic inspection of the houses
of the Borough.
(3) That the Sanitary Inspector so assisting the Medical
Officer of Health should not attend the Committee.
(Signed) G. B. Millson,
Medical Officer of Health,.
On 5th May, 1909, the Council adopted the following report:—
Your Committee have given the matter earnest consideration,
and have decided to adopt the suggestions of the Medical Officer of
Health until the 25th December, 1909, as an experiment, and in order
to afford the Committee an opportunity of judging how the proposed
arrangement will work. As a temporary arrangement, therefore, they
Becommend:—
(a) That the name and office of Chief Sanitary Inspector be
abolished.
(b) That until the 25th December, 1909, Mr. Weatheritt, now
acting as Food and Drugs Inspector, be appointed as
Sanitary Inspector for St. Jude's Ward, to discharge
therein all the duties of the office as defined by the
Sanitary Inspectors (London) Order of 1891, and further
to assist the Medical Officer of Health in supervising
and co.ordinating the work of other inspectors, together
with making from time to time a systematic inspection
of the houses in the Borough.
On the 16th March, 1910, the matter came again before the Council
on the Public Health Committee's Report:—