Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lambeth]
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REGULATIONS
ISSUED TO
SANITARY INSPECTORS.
1. The Sanitary lnspector shall present himself at the Office of
the department upon every week day at 9 o'clock in the morning.
2. Between the hours of 9 and 10 o'clock, a.m., the Inspector
shall enter in the report book provided for the purpose a fair copy
of the items of the previous day's inspection.
3. All cases in which sanitary defects arc observed to exist, and
all other cases falling under the provisions of the several Acts of
Parliament with which the duties of the Sanitary Inspector are
associated, shall now be transferred to their proper place in the
register of uncompleted works.
4. Letters of complaint shall at this time be examined by the
Inspector to whose district they apply, and answers shall be written
personally or dictated to the clerk as occasion may require.
5. At 10o'clock the Inspector shall present his report, in writing,
to the Medical Officer, but if from any cause the Medical Officer
shall not be present, the Inspector shall leave the same for the
Medical Officer.
6. The Inspector shall at this time call the attention of the
Medical Officer to the existence in his district of epidemic disease
or sanitary defect or other matters which in his opinion demand
the attention of the Medical Officer.