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DISTRICT INSPECTORS' WORK
The work performed by these inspectors, of whom there are fourteen, is
of a varied character, and is increasing year by year, as Public Health legislation
increases. Their principal duties are set out in the following statement:
1. To make a house to house inspection of their district as requited by
the Housing and Town Planning Act, 1909.
2. To inquire into complaints made to the Sanitary Authority.
3. To supervise the work required to be done for the abatement of the
nuisances which they have discovered.
4. To inspect ice cream factories.
5. To inspect dairies and milkshops.
6. To inspect stables, yards, manure pits, passages, courts and vacant
plots of land.
7. To inspect urinals attached to public-houses.
8. To inspect houses for which certificates are required under the
Customs and Inland Revenue Acts.
9. To inspect premises for which water certificates are required.
10. To make observations of smoke nuisances.
11. To inspect the shops, stalls and markets where food is sold on Saturday
evenings and Sunday mornings.
12. To inquire respecting infectious diseases notified under the Public
Health (London) Act, 1891, and under Orders of the Local Government
Board.
13. To make inquiries respecting the infectious diseases (measles, etc.)
notified by the teachers of the Public Elementary Schools.
14. To make inquiries as to the cause of failures to notify births under
the Notification of Births Act, 1907.
15. To inspect the homes of verminous children notified by the London
County Council as required by that body.
16. To make inquiry respecting persons notified under the luberculosis
Order, 1913.
17. To supervise the disinfection of rooms, schools, etc., after the occurrance
of an infectious disease in them.