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The number of your inspectors has been supplemented by one, viz.,
Inspector Bailey ; there are thus three food inspectors now employed in their
special duties.
The present arrangement of their districts is as follows:—
Inspector Spadaccini:
Royal Albert Dock.
Royal Victoria Dock.
East India Dock.
Inspector Anderson:
West India Dock.
South West India Dock.
Millwall Dock.
Regent's Dock.
St. Katharine's Dock.
London Dock.
Inspector Bailey:
Surrey Commercial Dock.
Tilbury Dock.
Vessels in the River and lying at Wharves.
The arrangement has been found to work satisfactorily.
The question of the disposal of tinned goods condemned by the City
Authorities and shot into barges at Letts' Wharf has called for the
attention of your Medical Officer, and arrangements have been made with the
Medical Officer of Health of the City for the notification to your Medical
Officer of the departure of barges from Letts' Wharf, that the same may be
kept under observation by your Inspectors, in order that condemned tinned
goods are not tampered with, but are landed at the place of destination and
the contents destroyed in suitable manner. Further, the Medical Officer of
the district in which the place where the stuff is shot is situated is also
notified by your Medical Officer, in order that he may take any precautions
he may deem necessary on the arrival of such tinned food within his district.
Up to the present this arrangement has worked satisfactorily.
RIVERSIDE WHARVES.
At an interview held at the Offices of the Local Government Board on the
27th September last, between representatives of the Local Government Board
and Members of your Committee, attended by the City Solicitor and your
Medical Officer, information was requested upon this subject. I accordingly