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The recommendation of the Works and Sanitary Committee
for the appointment of two additional Inspectors, was referred back
by your Vestry (30th April), and the Committee thereupon
requested me, prior to giving fresh consideration to the matter,
to make a further Report, setting out my views regarding the
department.
Thereupon I reported as follows:—
"(1) Your Committee having requested me to prepare a scheme setting out
my views regarding the Sanitary Department, I would beg to say, in
the first instance, that, in my judgment, Sanitary Inspectors should
be called upon to perform Sanitary work only.
(2) At present the Inspectors are required to perform multifarious duties,
some of them quite outside the work of Sanitation, and which could
be equally well discharged by Street Inspectors with no claim to the
position of Sanitary Inspectors, and at a lower rate of wages.
(3) I refer to out-door work relating to obstructions, mat-beating, inspection
of sun-blinds, drinking fountains, drinking troughs, public and
public-house urinals, &c.
(1) Street Inspectors, moreover, would be quite competent to inspect mews,
so as to see that the Vestry's requirements, as to the periodical
removal of manure, &c., are carried out.
(5) The Sanitary Inspectors, in my opinion, should, not be called upon to
get up cases against keepers of disorderly houses, and they should
be relieved from work under the Adulteration Acts.
(6) The duties of the Sanitary Inspectors would then consist, mainly,
in making house-to-house inspections, and in seeing that the
Vestry's regulations with respect to houses registered under the
Sanitary Act, 1866, are carried out; in attending to the removal of
infectious cases, exercising supervision over cases of that nature
kept at home, so that there may be no exposure of infected persons
or things, and in seeing that disinfection is carried out properly
after death, removal, or recovery of the sick.
(7) They would also visit public elementary schools, from time to time, to
ascertain that the Sanitary arrangements are in a proper working
order, and regularly inspect bakehouses, cowsheds, dairies, offensive
trades, &c.
(8) Complaints should be attended to by one or two only of the Inspectors,
as the case may be.