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and other technical duties of his profession. By their devotion
to duty the Inspectors of Lambeth may be said to have
acquired that skill which was not looked for in their earlier
years of office.
The work of the Sanitary Inspector is divided into two
classes. In the one are scheduled all those duties relating to
the maintenance of the parish in a sanitary condition, as the
systematic inspection of the public schools, Board and
parochial, the bakehouses and manufactories, the dairies and
cow-houses, the slaughter houses and public mews, the dust
yards and the brickfields, the registered lodging houses and
the model dwellings: to maintain in operation the Sale of
Food and Drugs Act; to effect, either by arrangement at
home or by removal to the hospitals of the Asylum Board,
the isolation of the infected sick; to secure the removal, the
disinfection, and the return of infected bedding and clothes;
to conduct the disinfection of infected premises; to attend to
the letters of complaint which reach the office from the
inhabitants of the several districts in respect to the existence
of nuisances, whether referring to dirty premises, stopped
drains, the overcrowding of tenements, offensive accumulations,
trade nuisances, dangerous structures, or animals improperly
kept.
The other class relates to works which are carried out
with the object of effecting a permanent improvement in the
sanitary condition of the parish. It includes all works of a
structural character. It therefore comprises: The disconnexion
and reconstruction of drains. The removal of
traps and other sanitary appliances of an obsolete and
inefficient sort and their replacement by those of a more
perfect pattern. The rebuilding or repair of dilapidated
houses. The paving and draining of yards and areas. The
provision of a sufficient water supply, and all other matters