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CITY OF WESTMINSTER.
Regulations for the Control of the Staff of Sanitary
Inspectoes.
1. The Staff of Sanitary Inspectors shall be under the direct control
and supervision of the Medical Officer of Health.
2. Each Sanitary Inspector shall be required on his discovering a
nuisance at any premises to make out and hand to the person responsible
where resident a detailed statement of the nuisance: and for giving
effect to this requirement each Sanitary Inspector shall be provided
with a Memorandum Book containing carbon triplicating sheets, in
order that he may be in possession of a copy of the statement of the
nuisance handed to the person responsible where resident, and that
he may hand one to the Medical Officer of Health, also that on the
form of statement referred to there shall he printed a notice to the
effect that "an official intimation of the nuisance will be forwarded
within 24 hours."
3. A notice, stating that "no Officer is permitted to receive money
or any consideration whatever," shall be printed on all notices served
in regard to nuisances.
4. Each Inspector shall be required to furnish to the Medical Officer
of Health, on forms provided, a report on premises inspected, specifying
fully the conditions existing, works necessary, in his opinion, to rectify
defects (if any), and subsequently additional defects discovered during
the progress of such work, or amended requirements discovered, together
with names of persons carrying out such works, dates of visits, testing
of drains, when the work was begun and finished, &c. Each report to
be handed to the Medical Officer of Health forthwith.
5. The Medical Officer of Health shall examine all reports with a
view to seeing that the inspection has been properly carried out, that
what is stated as necessary to abate the nuisance is sufficient or
insufficient, and shall have power to amend the requirements if he
deems them unsatisfactory on any of these grounds.
6. There shall be entered in a book a list of all premises visited by
the Inspectors showing (shortly) defects found (if any), work decided
by the Medical Officer of Health to be necessary, dates of notices and
other action taken on similar' lines to the Register of Complaints, and
such book shall be laid before the Public Health Committee at each
meeting for inspection, as is the Register of Complaints.