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Assistants.—A disinfecting assistant.
Clerical staff.—There is one clerk who is engaged in duties arising out of the work of the public
health and the surveyor's department.
Duties.—The appointment of surveyor as chief sanitary inspector is with a view to this officer
having control of the work of the sanitary inspectors in the absence of the medical officer of health. He
has little time for inspectorial duties. A vacancy having recently occurred in the office of surveyor,
it was proposed by the vestry to again appoint his successor as chief sanitary inspector, but this proposal
had not been confirmed by the Local Government Board at the date of inquiry.
The second inspector on the above list is concerned with all duties arising under the Public
Health, Factory and Workshop, and Food and Drugs Acts in the district.
The temporary inspector is solely engaged in house to house inspection.
In addition both inspectors do a considerable amount of clerical work, and the permanent
inspector is also much employed in making plans in connection with the work of the surveyor's department.
The inspectors are under the supervision and direction of the medical officer of health, and
during his absence under the surveyor.
Scavenging of dustbins and streets.—For superintending the scavenging of roads there is a road
foreman under the surveyor, and the vestry have lately decided to appoint three officers whose duty will
be to see that dustbins are regularly cleansed by the contractor who carries out the work.
Hachnev—vovulation 1896. 213.044.
A medical officer of health (whole time appointment). £550 per annum. Half repayable by
County Council.

. issisianis.—une ausc inspector.
Nine assistants in connection with disinfection work.
One mortuary keeper.
One assistant to help in drain testing.
A varying number of dustmen.
One messenger is attached to the department who is not directly appointed by the
vestry.
Clerical staff.—There are four clerks engaged in duties arising out of the work of the public
health department.
Duties.—The whole district is divided into eleven sub-districts, and in each of these an inspector
is concerned with all duties arising under the Public Health and Factory and Workshop Acts.
Number two on the above list, having a smaller district than the others, also does all the work arising
out of the administration of the Food and Drugs Act for the whole district, and number four is also
canal boat inspector under the Canal Boats Act. By arrangement with the chief inspector of canal
boats (Local Government Board) this inspector devotes one entire day in each week to this work, and
£26 of his salary is apportioned to the work, and no part of this sum is repaid by the Council. This
duty will shortly be transferred to another inspector (number 13) as it interferes with the ordinary work
of the present inspector. The inspectors, numbers 12 and 13 in the list, are engaged in house to house
inspection and in inspection of houses let in lodgings. Number 14 is engaged in inspecting workshops
where females are employed and the houses of outworkers.
The inspectors supervise reconstruction and alterations of drains, but the drains of new promises
are under the supervision of the surveyor.
Of the four disinfecting assistants, one is in charge of the disinfecting oven and station, two fetch
and return articles of clothing, fumigate rooms, the others are employed to strip walls, to lime-white
and to cleanse rooms. The messenger helps to serve school notices and to give out disinfectants.
The dust inspector supervises and sees that the vestry's dustmen are on duty. The dust removal
is carried out by a contractor and in order that the vestry may have direct control in the execution of
the work, the entire district has been divided into twenty-seven sub-districts, to each of which a man
employed by the vestry is allotted. It is the duty of these men to help and to see that the house refuse
is properly removed from each house, and they are under the superintendence of the dust inspector.
The sanitary inspectors are entirely under the direction and supervision of the medical officer of
health.
Scavenging of streets.—Road scavenging is supervised by the surveyor, and for this purpose there
are three road surveyors under him.