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certainly work enough in Bethnal Green for at least three active
officers.
It was at first proposed that the Medical Officer of Health should
be made responsible head of the department, and called upon to
attend at the Vestry Hall each morning for the purpose of
supervising the work of the Inspectors. This recommendation
was, in my opinion unfortunately, not adopted. At the last
meeting of the Committee it was decided to divide the Parish into
two districts, with an Inspector for each, and to promote Mr. J.
Lapworth to the position of Chief Inspector.
The following is a copy of the report sent up to the Vestry:
Your Committee having considered what arrangement it is desirablo
should be made in the Sanitary Department, in consequence of the
resignation of Sanitary Inspector Mr. W. W. Burrows, report and
recommend as follows :—
Your Committee are of opinion that Mr. J. W. Burrows' age and
health render it desirable he should cease to be a Sanitary Inspector,
and that he be awarded a pension, according to the scale allowed by
the Act of Parliament.
That the Parish should, for the purposes of Sanitary Inspection,
bo divided into two Districts; one to the north, the other to the south
of an imaginary continuous line, from the boundary of the Parish
in Church Street, along the centres of Church Street, Bethnal Green
Road, to its eastern end, thence northward along Cambridge Road to
Old Ford Road, and thence along this road to the boundary of the
Parish.
That there shall be one Chief and two other Inspectors.
That Mr. Joshua Lapworth, now one of the Inspectors, be appointed
Chief Inspector, at a salary of £160 per annum.
That tho two othor Inspectors be appointed at salaries of £2 per
week each, and that a lad be employed to attend at the Sanitary
Offico, at tho Vestry Hall, to koep books and give assistance in writing
documents and correspondence, at about 15s. per week.
That (the Medical Officer oxcepted) no porson employed by the
Vestry on tho Sanitary staff bo allowed to engage himself or be concerned
in any office, appointment, business, or occupation, without
the previous consent by resolution of the Vestry, and upon the terms
of such resolution.