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expressed the hope that in the future they will have both the inducement
and the opportunity to return to Hackney. They cannot
be blamed for leaving Hackney; indeed, they are to be commended
for making the best bargain they can for themselves and for their
families. Certainly, if they were to be content to sit back and let
opportunities pass them by while others receive a just reward for
qualifications, experience and usefulness, then they would not be
men of the type which we want in the Public Health Department.
The frustration and anxiety of the remaining inspectors is now also
having its inevitable effect.
The Sanitary Officers' Guild, in an attempt to find a way out
of the impasse which now confronts the department, has made
representations to the Council, and at an interview with the Town
Clerk which was arranged on the instructions of the Establishment
Committee, and at which representatives from the Headquarters of
the Guild and the local branch were present, submitted in writing
and orally the observations of the Guild.
These observations, after pointing out that the Council has
a statutory duty to appoint an adequate staff of sanitary inspectors
and drawing attention to the Council's authority to pay ' 'such
reasonable remuneration as it may determine," went on to show
that the reason for the shortage of sanitary inspectors in Hackney
is the Council's adherence to a scale of salaries which other Councils
have found to be inadequate to attract inspectors and have quite
legally increased. The Guild, therefore, suggested the following
scales as being not only commensurate with the qualifications and
responsibilities of sanitary inspectors, but also likely to give
impetus to the recruitment of the sanitary inspectors so urgently
needed in the borough.

Recruitment Grade .
The commencing salary to be linked with years of approved
service as a sanitary inspector by the subtraction of one increment
of £15 for each year of approved service less than 5, e.g.,
with no previous service as a sanitary inspector the commencing
salary would be £500—the minimum point in Grade III of the
N.J.C. Scales.