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4 appointed one each by the Association of Municipal Corporations,
the Standing Joint Committee of
Metropolitan Borough Councils, the Urban
District Councils Association and the Rural
District Councils Association
1 appointed by the Institute of Municipal Engineers.
1 appointed by the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons.
2 independent persons appointed by the Minister of Health
of whom at least one must be associated with a
university.
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(vii) The Chairman of the Board should be selected from among
its members by the Minister of Health.
(viii) The Minister of Health and other government departments
should be represented by liaison officers.
(ix) Representatives of professional organisations concerned in
the work of sanitary inspectors who do not appoint members should
be invited to advise the Board as required.
(x) The Board should have its own secretary but delegate the
administration of its examinations to some other body by way of a
freely negotiated agency agreement; such other body might be the
Royal Sanitary Institute, the Local Government Examination Board,
a university, or a professional association which already holds examinations.
(xi) The Minister of Health should have power to alter the
Composition of the Board at the Board's request.
(xii) Specialist examinations in smoke, and in meat inspection at
slaughterhouses as well as any new examinations which may be
required in the future, should be administered by the same body as
the qualifying examination.
Recommendations concerning examinations for Sanitary Inspectors
(xiii) The scope and standard of the qualifying examinations
should be that of the present basic and meat and other foods examinations
combined, and, in addition, more attention should be given
to smoke, insect pests, local government administration and public
health in general. The standard in smoke need not be up to that of
the present smoke examination.
(xiv) In the conduct of the examination the practical inspection
and report should be retained but should be marked by an examiner
who has himself inspected the premises.
(xv) The written papers should be increased in number and
each one devoted to a related group of subjects.
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