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London County Council.
SANITARY OFFICERS.
Report by the Medical Officer on the Sanitary Staffs of the Metropolitan Boroughs.
Printed by order of the Public Health Committee.
Public Health Department,
8, St. Martin's-place, W.C.,
June, 1901.
The last return presented to the Committee on this subject related to the year 1898. Similar
returns had been prepared in 1889, 1893, 1894 and 1895; the return of 1889, however, gave no
information as to the number of sanitary inspectors in the City and Whitechapel. The following
table enables comparison to be made of the number of inspectors in London for each of the years for
which complete returns have been obtained—
Tear.
Number of sanitary inspectors in
the whole of London.
1893 188*
1894 219*
1895 228*
1898 256*
1901 275
In the following table will be found the number of sanitary inspectors employed in each of the
metropolitan boroughs at the present time. It is not possible without knowledge of the character of
the population in each borough to make comparison between them, or to come to conclusions as to the
sufficiency of their staff. The proportion of population to each sanitary inspector does not afford
sufficient data for accurate conclusions. Owing to the re-districting of London under the Act of
1899 it is difficult to compare in respect of each district the proportions which existed at the date of
the last return with those at the present time.

*Excluding inspectors employed in districts mentioned in Schedule C of the Metropolis Local Management
Act.
†Including one temporary inspector. ‡Including one vacancy. §Including three vacancies.
|| Including seven inspectors, who are concerned only with meat inspection; if these be omitted, the
population per sanitary inspector is in 1898, 4,424; and in 1901, 3,842.