Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Kensington]
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"Appendix B.
"List of Duties of the Street Inspectors.
"1. To keep observation and report, to the Surveyor all cases
of obstruction upon or over the roads and footways.
"2. To report to the Surveyor all cases where offences are
committed by the beating of mats on the public footways, or by
the sweeping of refuse from houses and shops into the street.
"3. To report to the Surveyor all cases where sun blinds are
so fixed as to be at less than the Statutory height from the public
footway.
"4. To report to the Surveyor all cases where trees or
shrubs overhang the public thoroughfare at such a height as to
interfere with vehicular or pedestrian traffic.
"5. To inspect the drinking fountains and troughs erected in
the public thoroughfares.
"6. To inspect mews and other stable premises, with a view
to the enforcement of the periodical removal of manure therefrom,
in conformity with the regulations of the Vestry.
"7. To assist the Sanitary Inspectors in the performance of
their duties, under the directions of the Medical Officer of Health,
attending at the office daily at 9.30 a.m., to receive instructions,
make reports, &c.
"8. To act under the instructions of the Vestry Clerk in the
matter of keeping observation, procuring evidence, and reporting,
with regard to houses which are complained of as being of a
disorderly character.
"9. To procure, in accordance with directions to be received
from the Vestry Clerk, samples of Food, Drugs, &c., for the
purpose of analysis by the Public Analyst, under the Sale of
Food and Drugs Act, 1875.
"10. To keep a diary showing the day's work in the order in
which it is done, such diary to be entered up at home after office
hours.