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(xvi) The practical examinations should cover a more extensive
range of foods.
(xvii) Greater uniformity should be sought in the assessment of
examination results.
(xviii) Examiners should be drawn from a smaller panel and
Paid a fee.
(xix) There should be an intermediate examination for students
after the first two years of study.
Recommendations concerning the conduct and policy of the Examining
Authority
(xx) Theoretical instruction should normally comprise a four
ear course including instruction in meat and food inspection to a
standard not lower than that now required for the Certificate for
Inspectors of Meat and Other Foods.
(xxi) Inspectors qualified under the present arrangements who
have not obtained the present Meat and Other Foods Certificate
should he permitted to sit for the food inspection part of the new
examination.
(xxii) Practical training should be obtained in the service of
local authorities approved for the purpose by the examining authority
and should be taken concurrently with theoretical training.
(xxiii) The examining authority should register but not select
students.
(xxiv) Entrants from Trades should be required to have reached
the same standard of education as other entrants, but should be
lowed to demonstrate their attainment of that standard by taking
examinations suited to older men.
(xxv) The examining authority should give special attention to
thePosition of Royal Naval sick berth attendant ratings wishing
to Qualify as sanitary inspectors while in the Navy.
(xxvi) Subject to the essential needs of the local government
Service the examining authority should endeavour to meet the requirements
of non-commissioned officers; who have qualified as
Hygiene Assistants or Hygienists while in the Army or Royal Air
Force and who wish to qualify as sanitary inspectors after discharge.
It may be necessary for the War Office and Air Ministry to amend
their own training courses for this purpose.
(xxvii) The normal standard of preliminary education required
of recruits to sanitary inspection should be the General Certificate
of Education at Ordinary level in four subjects, to include English,
Mathematics and a scientific subject.
(xxviii) The Board should give special attention to the maintenance
of proper liaison with teaching establishments.
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