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7. Each District Inspector shall, except by previous arrangement
with the Medical Officer of Health, return to the office daily at 4.30 p.m.
except on Saturdays, when he shall return at 12.30 p.m., to prepare and
hand in investigation cards of infectious disease, reports of inspections,
and a statement of places visited, reason of visit and result thereof, and
to receive instructions.
8. The hours of duty of Inspectors shall be from 9 to 5 on week
days other than Saturdays, on which day they shall be from 9 to 1:
but any Inspector may be required to stay later than these hours if
necessary.
9. The districts of the Sanitary Inspectors may be changed over
from time to time as the Public Health Committee may direct.
10. In every case in which food is seized, or in which, if seized,
proceedings might follow, it shall not be destroyed until it has been
seen by the Medical Officer of Health, whether it has been condemned
by a magistrate or not.
11. In every case in which food is inspected a report shall be made
by the Food and Drugs or the District Sanitary Inspector concerned,
stating its nature, quantity and owner, the date, time and place of
inspection, by Inspector, Medical Officer of Health and magistrate,
with the result of such inspection by each, the facts entered in a
Register, together with a note of proceedings taken (if any) to condemn
the food, orders for destruction, certificates granted with dates of same,
when, how, and by whom destroyed, when reported to Public Health
Committee, orders thereon, persons summoned, date of summonses, and
result of hearing.
12. Wherever food is seized by an Inspector as being unsound it
shall be the duty of that Inspector to affix to the article or articles of
food so seized a mark of identification, and it shall also be the duty of
that Inspector to inform the proprietor of such food at the time of
seizure that he is at liberty to accompany him to the police court for
the purpose of seeing whether the food so seized is condemned or not
by the magistrate.
13. Such arrangements as may be necessary to secure the proper
and efficient execution of the duties of the Food and Drugs Inspectors
shall be left to the discretion of the Medical Officer of Health.
14. No prosecution shall be instituted under the Public Health
(London) Act, 1891, until the subject matter of the proposed prosecution
has first been personally investigated by the Medical Officer of Health,
and the prosecution has been expressly authorised by the Public Health
Committee, or, in cases of emergency, by the Chairman or Acting
Chairman of that Committee,
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