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6.—RECOMMENDATIONS.
After reviewing the circumstances and the needs of the Borough, I beg to submit
for your consideration the following recommendations.
(1) That 2 additional sanitary inspectors be appointed, thus raising
the number of inspectors in the Borough to 8.
(2) That the inspectors so appointed be assigned to districts therein to
perform the duties laid down for sanitary inspectors in accordance
with the Sanitary Officers (London) Order, 1891, and that the Borough
be divided into sanitary sub-districts accordingly.
(3) That a second health visitor be appointed, and that the Borough be
divided into two districts for health visiting, namely Hoxton and
Haggerston
(4) That the system of preparing the sanitary inspectors intimation notices
be modified on the lines suggested in this report.
(5) That an additional clerk be appointed.
7.—FINANCIAL CONSIDERATIONS.
To give effect to the foregoing recommendations at the existing rates of pay will
involve an additional expenditure which may be estimated as follows :—
Two sanitary inspectors £290
One health visitor £100
One clerk £52
The total for the first year would be £442, rising by annual increments of say
£20 to a maximum of about £590 per annum.
It is to be noted, however, that approximately half of the salaries paid to the
sanitary inspectors should be refunded to the Borough Council by the London County
Council out of the exchequer contribution account. It may also be stated that the
sum paid to Shoreditch under the Equalisation of Rates Act, 1894, was during the
year ending March 31st, 1912, over one thousand pounds more than in the previous
year. In as much as the expenses incurred by the sanitary authority under the
Public Health (London) Act, 1891, are a first charge on every sum paid to the sanitary
authority under the Equalisation of Rates Act, the point is one which should not
be lost sight of in considering the expenditure involved in connection with the in
creases in the sanitary staff as recommended.
I am, Gentlemen,
Your obedient Servant,
LEWIS T. FRASER BRYETT,
Medical Officer of Health.
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