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The extended powers conferred by these Regulations upon Port Sanitary
Authorities have enabled your officers to perform the duties of Food Inspection in a
more thorough manner, and the results have proved the necessity for the additional
powers under the Regulations and the importance of this branch of the work of the
Port Sanitary Authority,
Prior to the year 1909 the only powers of food inspection possessed by this
Authority were under Section 47 of the Public Health (London) Act, 1891, and the
work was carried out entirely by three Food Inspectors, who devoted the whole of
their time to this work.
This staff was found inadequate to carry out the provisions of the Regulations
made by the Local Government Board, therefore three additional Sanitary Inspectors
were appointed, and the duties of assisting with Food Inspection were added to the
duties hitherto performed by the Sanitary Inspectors.
The organisation for the performance of food inspection for the Port of London
is as follows :
The district is divided into three, to each of which a Food Inspector is allotted,
and he is responsible to me for the inspection of all food stuffs within his district.
The districts are as follows :—
DISTRICT "A" (Inspector Spadaccini).
Sub-District 1. Royal Victoria Dock.
,, 2. Royal Albert Dock.
„ 3. East India Dock.
DISTRICT "B" (Inspector Anderson).
Sub-District 1. London, St. Katharine's and Regents Docks.
,, 2. West India and Millwall Docks.
DISTRICT "C" Inspector Bailey).
Sub-District 1. Surrey Commercial Docks.
„ 2. "Vessels discharging in the district of the Port Sanitary
Authority not within a dock.
„ 3. Tilbury Dock.
Each district is divided up into sub-districts which is in charge of a Sanitary
Inspector whose duties are to inspect all vessels within their districts as well as all
buildings, dwellings, &c., situated on the land within their district. In addition they
perform routine work of food inspection under the direction of the Food Inspector.
At times of pressure, the Sanitary Inspectors are engaged for portions of the day
in examining food stuffs only, and during the past year it has been necessary even to
utilise the services of the Assistant Medical Officers in their spare time for this purpose.