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2nd class.—E. J. S.
F.J.R. £140 to ,£200 Half repayable by the County Council.
J.B.
One senior inspector of slaughterhouses and meat; and five inspectors—in addition there is at
present a temporary inspector—
G. P. T., senior inspector £400
J. L. £225
O. S £225
H. J. 1
W. E. D. £200 (commencing salary).
Assistants.—A keeper of the mortuary and engineer in charge of the disinfecting apparatus.
Two assistants in connection with disinfection and other duties.
An assistant in the condemned meat sheds.
Clerical staff.—There is a clerk who is entirely concerned with duties of the department of the
medical officer of health and public analyst.
Clerical assistance is also given by clerks on the general staff of the public health department,
which comprises the department of the medical officer of health and public analyst, the streets and
cleansing department, and the finance department.
Duties.—Each of the sanitary inspectors is concerned with all duties arising under the
Public Health Act and the Food and Drugs Act, except the last on the above list, who is concerned
with smoke nuisances, duties in connection with cases of notified infectious disease, and with the service
of notices on the occupiers of factories and workshops.
The meat inspectors are engaged in connection with meat inspection.
The inspectors are under the entire supervision and direction of the medical officer of health.
Scavenging of roads and dustbins.—This work is carried out by men employed by the city, under
the control of a superintendent of the cleansing department.
Shoreditch—population 1896, 122,348.
A medical officer of health (whole time appointment). £500 per annum. Half repayable by
County Council.
Six sanitary inspectors—
I. H. A. £200 per annum. Half repayable bv County Council.
2. J. W. L £150
3. C. H. Q £150
4. W. F £135 „
5. E. J £125 „
6. A. L. £120
Assistants.—One general assistant.
One disinfector and two assistants.
Mortuary keeper, who is also sexton to church and lives close to mortuary.
Caretaker (female) of the shelter.
Clerical staff.—One clerk.
One assistant clerk. The general assistant also helps in clerical work.
Division of duties.—The senior inspector acts as chief sanitary inspector and is concerned with
duties under the Public Health and Factory and Workshop Acts throughout the entire parish, and
in generally superintending and giving assistance to the other inspectors. He also attends to the
registration of houses let in lodgings. The remaining inspectors have each a district, and in it they each
perform all duties arising under the Public Health and Factory and "Workshop Acts. Number 5 in
above list having the most compact district, is also concerned with carrying out duties under the Food
and Drugs Act for the whole district and with smoke nuisances.
The supervision of all drainage work both in new premises and existing houses, as well as the
testing of drains, forms part of the inspectors' duties.
The general assistant helps in the testing of drains, in obtaining samples under the Food and
Drugs Act, in serving notices and in clerical work.
The disinfector is occupied in disinfecting articles of clothing and bedding which are brought
from and returned to houses by the two assistants. The latter officers also carry out the disinfection of
rooms, and strip and cleanse rooms after fumigation where it is considered necessary.
The sanitary inspectors are under the general supervision of the medical officer of health.
Scavenging of dustbins and roads.—In addition to the above staff, there is in the surveyor's
department a general superintendent who supervises the scavenging of streets and the cleansing of
dustbins. This work is done by men in the employment of the vestry under the control of two
scavenging foremen, and one dusting foreman who have gangers in charge of each gang of men.
Bethnal-green—-population 1896, 129,162.
A medical officer of health (part time appointment). £300 per annum. Half repayable by
Ccunty Council.
Seven sanitary inspectors. (One of these, however, was till recently, clerk of the department. He
has now been appointed an inspector, but still devotes some of his time to clerical duties).
per annum.
1. J. F. £250 to £350
at present £260 Half of £250 repayable by County Council.
2. J. L. £200 Half repayable by County Council.
3. B. S. W £200
4. A. S. H £140
5. E. R £140
6. H. F. B £130
7. F. W M., also acts as clerk £120 „ „ „