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MEMORANDUM
on
Duties of Sanitary Inspectors.
The duties of Sanitary Inspectors are of two kinds:-
1st—Routine Duties.
These have for their object the prevention of the spread of disease,
and the maintenance of the sanitary condition of the Parish.
They are:—
(a) To secure the isolation at homo, or the removal to hospital in
suitable cases, of persons suffering from various infectious
diseases, and at the removal of the patient, or termination of
the illness, by convalescence, or death, to supervise the disinfection
of the premises and bedding, and the subsequent
cleansing and lime-whiting of the walls, etc.
(b) To periodically inspect Lodging Houses, Cow Houses, Slaughter
Houses, Bakehouses, Offensive Trades, Factories where motive
power is not employed, and Schools.
(c) Duties under tho Food and Drugs' Acts.
Market inspection, and tho seizuro of unwholesome articlos of
food.
(d) To attend to notices of complaint from inhabitants of the
Parish, in respect of the existence of nuisances of various kinds,
such as choked drains, overcrowded tenements, dirty promises,
offensive accumulations, animals improperly kept, trade
nuisances, etc.
(e) Duties under the 35th section of the Sanitary Act (should
this clause bo put in operation).
(f) Duties in connection with the dust collecting and scavenging.