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and bedding in connection with infectious diseases.
Under these circumstances, I am compelled to say
that, in my opinion, the time has come when in
urder to secure effective performance of sanitary
duties a considerable addition should be made to
the sanitary staff. In connection with this subject
here is one other consideration on which I feel it
my duty to remark. There are no duties performed
by any Vestry official which requires more good
Lemper, more firmness, more tact, more skill, and
more thorough honesty for their efficient discharge
than do those performed by Inspectors of Nuisances.
They have large powers which they might easily
abuse; they are exposed to many temptations ; the
character of the Vestry, indeed, is largely involved
in the mode in which they discharge their multifarious
functions. It is important, therefore, to
have as Inspectors exceptionally good and trustworthy
men, and to pay them liberally.
J S. BRISTOWE, M.D., F.R.S.,
Medical Officer of Health.
January 29th, 1884.
Note.—I think it right to add here that the Superintendent of Dust
Removal is also a Sanitary Inspector ; and that two extra men are generally
employed for the purposes of disinfection.