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"11. To prepare and serve such notices, under the instructions
of the Heads of Departments, as may be necessary; and
generally to carry out such other duties as may be allotted by the
Vestry from time to time.
"Note.—The hours of the Street Inspectors are from 8 a.m.
to 5 p.m. (Saturday 2 p.m.)., excepting in so far as they may be
required to perform duties at other times under paragraphs 8
and 9."
The above Report was adopted by your Vestry; a junior
clerk was appointed as well as a "sanitary labourer," and the
several officers in the department are now carrying out their
duties in conformity with the provisions contained in the Report
and Appendices. The pressure of current work therefore, so far
as the Sanitary Inspectors are concerned, has been diminished by
their release from the performance of a variety of duties which
do not come within the definition of "Sanitary Work." To that
extent, therefore, the power of the department, for the discharge
of the duties proper to the office of Sanitary Inspector, has been
increased; but whether the assistance given will suffice for the
performance by the Inspectors of their duties as enlarged by
recent and impending legislation, time only can determine.
OFFENSIVE BUSINESSES.
What I shall have to say under this head will serve at once
to illustrate the advantages of bye-laws, and the difficulties with
which the Sanitary Authorities have to contend for want of byelaws.
Your Vestry took steps some years ago, to obtain an
extension of powers, by an ineffectual appeal to the Metropolitan
Board of Works, referred to in the next but one paragraph; but,
as it will appear, the Special Purposes and Sanitary Committee
of that body ultimately saw reason to modify the views they had
originally expressed, so that their final opinions came to correspond
closely with those I had set out in the Reports which led to
the afore-mentioned appeal to the Board. With these few
remarks, I pass on to observe that the only business coming under