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My report was referred to the Works and Sanitary Committee
who, having regard to the importance of the subject,
appointed a sub-committee—
"To consider and advise what alterations are necessary in the Sanitary
Department to enable the Vestry to carry out the provisions of the
Public Health (London) Act, 1891, and other recent Acts of a cognate
character; and
"To consider the recommendations of the Medical Officer of Health, as to
the addition required to be made to the Sanitary Staff, to carry out the
duties devolving upon the Vestry under the Public Health (London)
Act, 1891; and to advise generally as to the procedure to be followed
by the Works and Sanitary Committee in carrying out the duties delegated
to them by the Vestry under the said Act, and others of a
cognate character."
The sub-committee reported in March, 1892, as follows:—
"Your Sub-Committee having taken into consideration the reports of
the Medical Officer of Health, and the increased duties devolving upon
the Vestry, as the Sanitary Authority, under the Public Health Act,
the Housing of the Working Classes Act, and the Factory Acts,
are of opinion that the Sanitary staff should be increased by the addition
of four Inspectors and a fourth-class Clerk, and recommend
accordingly. Should this recommendation meet with the approval of
the Committee and of the Vestry, your Sub-Committee would further
recommend that the matter be referred back to them to fix the districts
of the several Inspectors, and to draw up a scheme of the duties to be
performed by them.
"With regard to the proposed new scale of payment of the Inspectors, your
Sub-Committee express no opinion. They would point out, however,
that in the case of all new appointments of Inspectors, one-half of the
salaries will be repayable by the London County Council out of the
Exchequer Contribution Fund : and that the Vestry may, by a formal
resolution reappointing the Medical Officer of Health and the three
senior Sanitary Inspectors, under the provisions of the General Order
of the Local Government Board (dated 8th December, 1891), entitled
"The Sanitary Officers (London) Order, 1891," obtain repayment of
one-half of the salaries of those officers in like manner. If this were
done, the salaries of the staff in the Sanitary Department, with the
proposed additional appointments, would involve a charge upon the
local rates of one thousand pounds per annum. Your Sub-Committee