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inspection of workshops and factories where men are employed, and of
registered tenement houses were added to the duties of District Inspectors.
This alteration abolished the Man Inspector of Workshops, and the Tenement
House Inspectors, and altered both the duties and areas of the District
Inspectors.
On the 7th March, 1906, (p. 319) the Borough Council resolved that the
Special Inspector cease to inspect disinfected rooms, and that the District
Inspectors undertake this duty. That the Special Inspector continue to
superintend the Disinfecting Station, Contact Shelter, and Cleansing Station,
and that he be given a District (the Town Hall District) formed of part of
Wards 3 and 6 in which to carry out the duties of District Inspector and Food
Inspector, and that it also be his duty to accompany other Inspectors where
confirmation of a drain test is necessary.
On the 17th July, 1907, (p. 80) the Borough Council resolved to relieve the
Special Inspector of the supervision of the Disinfecting Station (presumably
also of the Contact Shelter, and of the Cleansing Station) and created the
senior Disinfector Foreman of the Disinfecting and Cleansing Station.
On the 31st July, 1907, (p. 139) the Borough Council resolved to dismiss a
District Inspector for neglect of duty, &c.
On the 18th September, 1907, (p. 428) the Borough Council resolved not
to appoint a Sanitary Inspector to fill the vacancy created.
On the 18th December, 1907, (p. 965) the Special Inspector's District was
extended to include the whole of the College and Oakley Square Sub-Divisions
in which to carry out his duties as Food Inspector and District Inspector.
Female Officers.—The appointment of Women in Public Health Departments
is now so general that a classification becomes desirable, as follows:—
A. Women Sanitary Inspectors.
B. (Women) Health Visitors.
I. Paid (Health Visitors).
II. Unpaid.
(а) Professional Voluntary Visitors.
(b) Philanthropic Voluntary Visitors.
Professional Voluntary Visitors are women professionally qualified either as
Sanitary Inspectors, Midwives, or Nurses, or holding Certificates in Hygiene,
etc., and intending to take up the calling professionally. Philanthropic
Voluntary Nurses are women in independent circumstances who desire to
employ part of their time in beneficial public work.
Since the autumn of 1905 to the end of 1907 there have been some 21
women philanthropists intermittently working in St. Pancras for various
periods, and 14 professional women working more regularly and for longer
periods, about half of whom have since obtained public appointments.