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Shoreditch 1955

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Shoreditch]

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47.
The students are appointed in the first instance as clerks in the
General Grade and if after a period of service they are considered
satisfactory, they are appointed as student Sanitary Inspectors. During
the first year they are expected to make themselves proficient in shorthand
and typing. In the second year they attend a course of training
in building construction and the last two years are spent on a theoretical
course of training in preparation for taking the Royal Sanitary Institute
and Sanitary Inspectors' Examination Joint Board examination. The first
of these two years is devoted, to work in the office in connection with
Sanitary Inspectors' work in conjunction with their part-time attendance
at a recognised Institute and during the last year of their course they
are given a full comprehensive training on the work of each district
Sanitary Inspector and the specialist inspectors on a rota system.
Financial assistance is given in accordance with the National Joint
Council's Scheme of Conditions of Service.
FOOD & DRUGS (MILK & DAIRIES) ACT, 1944.
MILK (SPECIAL DESIGNATIONS) ACT, 1949.
The details of licences issued during the year under the various
regulations are given in the following tables

Milk (Special Designations) (Pasteurised & Sterilised Milk) Regulations, 1949.

PasteurisedSterilised
Dealers' Licences6388
Supplementary Licences2327
Totals86115

Milk (Special Designations) (Raw Milk) Regulations 1949

Tuberculin Tested
Dealers' Licences44
Supplementary Licences22
Totals66