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addressed to you as to the date of the proposed Inquiry and the place at
which it will be held
"I am to add that the Board would he glad if the Council would
instruct their officers to afford the Board's Inspector all necessary
assistance in the matter."
An Inquiry was accordingly held by the Inspector appointed by the Local
Government Board into the by-laws proposed to be made with respect to
"Houses let in lodgings or occupied by members of more than one family," at
the Town Hall, on the 15th and 22nd September. The Inspector of the
Board also spent eleven days inspecting premises throughout the Borough in
each of the Sub-Divisions, and inquiring into the duties of each of the Sanitary
Inspectors.
Subsequently the following letter, dated 8th December, 1908, was received
from the Local Government Board by the Town Clerk:—
"I am directed by the Local Government Board to state that they
have had under consideration the report of their Inspector, Dr. Sweeting,
after his recent inquiry into the sufficiency of the staff of Sanitary Inspectors
in the Borough of St. Pancras.
The Board are of opinion that each of the two districts into which it
is proposed to divide North St. Pancras is too large to be adequately
supervised by one Sanitary Inspector. It appears to them that the large
area of the Highgate Sub-Division and the special character of the New
Town Area therein demands the services of one Inspector, and that the
proposed No. 2 District consisting of three sub-divisions is too much for
one Inspector. In the circumstances the Board consider that North St.
Pancras should be divided as hitherto between three Inspectors, viz.:—
(1) Highgate; (2) Gospel Oak and St. John's Park; (3) Maitland Park
and Grafton.
I am, therefore, to request that the Borough Council will be good
enough to reconsider the matter with a view to the appointment of an
additional Sanitary Inspector."
The matter was referred to the Public Health Committee for consideration
and report, and the Committee instructed the Medical Officer of Health to
report to them upon the working of the Sanitary Inspectors' Districts in North
St. Pancras.
Accordingly, the Medical Officer of Health submitted the two following
reports dated, respectively, the 9th March and 21st April, 1909:—
Pursuant to the instruction of your Committee of the 27th January last,
I beg to report upon and submit statistics as to the working of the Sanitary
Inspectors' Districts in North St. Pancras as follows:—
I reported to your Committee on the 24th June, 1908, in accordance with
instructions upon the redistribution of the areas of the District Inspectors so
as to cover the whole of the Borough in twelve as equable parts as possible.
Of necessity this redistribution was based upon theoretical calculations of the
numbers of various premises multiplied by the average numbers of inspections.