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The remaining four are divisional inspectors, and each, in his district, is concerned with all duties
under the Public Health Act (except those mentioned above) and the Food and Drugs Act.
Of the disinfecting assistants, one acts as driver to the vans, the other fetches and returns the
articles, manipulates the disinfecting apparatus during the process of disinfection and disinfects
rooms.
The sanitary inspectors are under the control and supervision of the medical officer of health.
Scavenging of dustbins and of roads.—There is a dusting superintendent in the surveyors'
department who attends to the systematic cleansing of dustbins, and there are two foremen of
scavengers for the cleansing of streets.
St. Pancras—Population 1901, 235,281.
A medical officer of health (whole time appointment). £700 per annum. Half repayable by
the County Council.

Assistants.—Three assistants for disinfection.
A caretaker of the mortuaries and coroner's court.
An attendant (wife of mortuaries keeper) upon the temporary shelter at the
disinfecting station.
A messenger.
Clerical staff.—There is a chief clerk for the public health department, five other clerks and
a boy clerk.
Duties.—The first eight sanitary inspectors on the above list have each been allotted a
district in which each deals with infectious diseases, complaints, drainage, and nuisances generally.
9 and 10 are inspectors of food and food places and carry out the Food and Drugs Acts, and the bylaws
for slaughterhouses and dairies, and the inspection of food. 11 and 12 carry out the duties of
the Factory and Workshop Acts. The male inspector also deals with the bakehouses, offensive trades
and smoke, and the female with outworkers' lists, domestic workshops, laundries and day schools.
13 and 14 deal with tenement houses, making inquiry as to occupation, measuring them for registration
purposes, inspecting them when registered, and the re-inspection of closed underground dwellings.
Of the disinfecting assistants one works the steam chamber, one drives the vans, and one
fumigates the rooms and removes the articles of clothing to and fro, assisted at either end by one of
the other two.
Note.—The Public Health Committee have recommended that the salaries of the sanitary
inspectors should in future be £150 to £200 per annum, and this is now under consideration
(April, 1901). The borough council have since resolved that the salaries of the sanitary inspectors
shall commence at £120, rising by annual increments to £150 per annum, the increases to take effect
at the commencement of the next financial year (May 1901.
Islington—Population 1901, 334,928.
A medical officer of health (whole time appointment). £800 per annum. Half repayable by
County Council.