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Paddington 1893

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Paddington]

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REPORT, 1893-94. 37
"That the Sanitary Committee be requested to
consider the advisability of re-organizing the
Sanitary Department of the Vestry, and to
report to the Vestry, at as early a date as
practicable, any steps they may consider
should be taken to make that Department
more efficient and convenient to the Ratepayers,
more especially with regard to
providing proper office accommodation for
the Medical Officer, aud regulating his and
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the Sanitary Inspectors' hours of attendance
at the Vestry Hall, &c."
A Report was prepared and the following recommendations
adopted, viz.:—
"That one Medical Officer be appointed as at
present, and that such officer have complete executive
control over the Sanitary staff.
"That in view of the enormous increase in
clerical work in the Department, and of the fact
that full and complete registers of complaints and
nuisances should be kept in the office, a separate
clerk should be appointed to do all scriptory work.
"That it is desirable that the Sanitary Inspectors
should be in classes, with salaries rising in each class
from a minimum to a maximum, and that the staff
should comprise the following officers:—
One First-Class Inspector.
Two Second-Class Inspectors.
Two Third do. do.
One Assistant Inspector and Disinfector.