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The Ministry of Health ask that in the report on Sanitary
Administration during the year, information should be given
under the heads set out below.
Work of the Sanitary Inspectors under Article 19 of the
Sanitary Officers' Order, 1922. Article 19 of the Sanitary Officers
Order, 1922, deals with the duties of Sanitary Inspectors.
These duties may be classified as obligatory and optional.
The optional duties referred to are as follows :—(a) Paragraph
8 reads : " If so directed by the Local Authority supervise the
the scavenging of his district or any part thereof." The work
of scavenging in Woolwich is done in two Parishes by the
Works Department of the Council, and in the Parish of
Plumstead it is done by a firm of Contractors. It is part
of the duty of Sanitary Inspectors to supervise this work.
(b) Paragraph 9 deals with certain Acts amongst them being
the Rats and Mice (Destruction) Act, 1919. All the district
Sanitary Inspectors have been directed by the Council to
act as Rats Officers within their respective districts. The
general work of the Sanitary Inspectors under this Order
has been shown in Tables No. 46 and 47.
The sanitary staff consists of one Chief Inspector, six
District Inspectors, one Food and Drugs Inspector, oneWoman
Sanitary Inspector, two part-time Health Visitors
and Sanitary Inspectors, and two other Inspectors, one who
is entirely engaged on Housing Survey work and one who is
partially engaged on this work and partly acts as a District
Inspector.
Inspection of Premises where Food is Prepared. It is the
duty of each Inspector, whilst on his district, to have under
observation the food supply, but in addition, arrangements
have been made whereby three Inspectors specially inspect
the food exposed for sale on the market places and make