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St. Giles— population 1896, 38,237.
A medical officer of health (whole time appointment). £700 per annum. Half repayable by
County Council.

A man is occasionally engaged to obtain samples under the Food and Drugs Act.
A mortuary keeper, who looks after mortuary and coroner's court.
Clerical staff.—There is one clerk solely engaged in clerk duties arising out of the work of the
department.
Duties.—To each of the inspectors, numbers 1 and 2 in above list, a district is allotted, and in it
each is concerned with all duties arising under the Public Health, Factory and Workshop, and Food
and Drugs Acts, except so far as relates to mews and to any nuisance not arising on private premises,
that is to say in the public way, streets, or from the carriage of offensive matter. Numbers 3 and
4 are concerned with mews and nuisances other than those dealt with by 1 and 2. Number 5
supervises the systematic cleansing of dustbins by the contractor employed by the sanitary authority for
this purpose. All these are statutory officers under the Public Health Act, but Numbers 3 and 4 work
in the surveyor's department, and are chiefly engaged in duties relating to his department, viz., defects of
paving of streets, except in so far as set out above. Number 5 also reports to the surveyor, who is
responsible for the dust collection. All drainage work is supervised, and all testing of drains is carried
out by the surveyor's department. The above mentioned inspectors have no concern with this work.
The disinfectors are engaged in the disinfection of rooms, in fetching and returning articles of
bedding, &c., and in disinfecting them at the station. They also work for the surveyor in the stone-yard.
The duties of the sanitary inspectors are entirely under the direction and supervision of the medical
officer of health.
Scavenging of streets.—In addition to the above staff, there is an inspector entirely occupied in
seeing that the streets are properly scavenged. He is under the surveyor.
St. Martin-in-the-Fields—population 1896, 13,077.
A medical officer of health (part time appointment). £350 per annum. Half repayable by
County Council.
Two sanitary inspectors (one permanent, one temporary).
1. W. C., £102 and uniform. Half repayable by County Council.
2. H. S., £2 12s. 6d. a week.
Clerical staff.—There is no clerical staff.
Duties.—The permanent inspector is concerned with all duties arising under the Public Health,
Factory and "Workshop, and Food and Drugs Acts ; the temporary inspector chiefly with house to
house inspection and the supervision of drainage works.
The staff is under the direction of the medical officer of health.
Scavenging of dustbins and streets.—In addition to the above staff there are in the surveyor's
department, inspectors concerned with the cleansing of dustbins and the scavenging of streets.
Strand—population 1896, 23,782.
A medical officer of health (whole time appointment). £600 per annum. Half repayable by
Countv Council.

Assistants.—Two disinfecting assistants.
A temporary assistant when required.
Clerical staff.—None. Application has been made for clerical assistance.
Duties.—Taking the inspectors in the order of above list, their duties are as follows —
1. Is concerned with all general work under the Public Health Act and Food and Drugs
Act, and supervises the removal of cases of infectious disease, the disinfection of articles and
of rooms.
2. Is concerned with duties under the Factory and Workshop Act, duties relating to
factories and workshops under the Public Health Act and such other duties as he may be
directed to perform.
3. This inspector is partly under the surveyor. Thus he is concerned with smoke
nuisances, nuisances in streets from refuse, &c., and also overhead wires.
4. The assistant to the sanitary inspectors is concerned with houses let in lodgings, and
in giving assistance generally to the inspectors.
All drainage work both as regards construction and reconstruction is supervised by the sanitary
inspectors. The inspectors are entirely under the control and supervision of the medical officer of health.
The disinfecting assistants fetch from and return to premises articles of clothing, do the
disinfection, and also act as mortuary keepers.
Scavenging of dustbins and streets.—There are in the surveyor's department three foremen who
attend to the cleansing of dustbins and supervise road scavenging, which is done by orderly boys
under the direction of two superintendents.