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staff; and acting on this opinion, mainly with a
view to render more complete your sanitary supervision
of the City, you have just appointed two
additional Inspectors of Nuisances. In making this
appointment, you have determined not to restrict
any two or three Inspectors exclusively to the
business of house-inspection, but to allot the joint
duties—sanitary and surveying, equally among their
number: parting the area of the City into six, instead
of four, Inspectors' districts; so that each Inspector
shall give a certain proportion of time to the
duties which he has to fulfil under your Surveyor's
direction, and another certain proportion to those
in which he will be engaged under the direction of
your Officer of Health. It is only some experience
of this arrangement that can decide whether it will
be the most effectual for your purpose; but in the
mean time I have studied so to dispose the industry
of your increased staff, under the arrangement you
have ordered, as to obtain the most systematic and
efficient discharge of those duties which you have
desired me to superintend.
Reckoning that each Inspector, if he fulfilled no
other duty, could report on the condition of about
fifty houses per diem, I presume that henceforth, in
each of your five more important districts, from
one hundred to one hundred and twenty houses
can be visited weekly by the Inspector, without
encroaching on the time required for his other
duties.