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 Rotherhithe]
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per annum, rising by two annual increments of £10 to a maximum of £150.
subject to his agreeing to give one months notice previous to resigning the
office, or to forfeit such sum as may be agreed upon as liquidated damages, to
his residing in the parish, to his making no claim to a superannuation
allowance under the Superannuation Allowances Act, 1866, upon retirement,
and to his submitting to any scheme which the Vestry may adopt with regard
to insurance for pensions or superannuation.
(2) That, subject to the approval of the Local Government Board, Mr. Thomas
Lane Davies be and he is hereby re-appointed a Sanitary Inspector and
Inspector under the Sale of Food and Drugs Acts for the parish, at a salary of
£'200 per annum, subject to his agreeing to give one month's notice previous
to resigning the office, or to forfeit such sum as may be agreed upon as
liquidated damages, to his residing in the parish, to his making no claim to a
superannuation allowance under the Superannuation Allowances Act, 1864,
upon retirement, and to his submitting to any scheme which the Vestry may
The appointments of Messrs. Danes and Cockburn as Sanitary Inspectors for the
parish were duly sanctioned by the Local Government Board, such sanction being notified
to the Vestry by letter dated 15th May, 1896.
On 16th June, 1896, the Sanitary Committee reported having considered as to which
part of the parish should be allocated to Inspectors Davies and Cockburn respectively, when
it was, upon their recommendation,
Resolved—(1) That so much of the parish north of a line drawn from Lavvender
Bridge across the Surrey Commercial Docks to the main entrance thereto
in the Lower Road, across Lower Road and down the centre of Gomm
Road and through Soothwark Park, intersecting the same in a line with
the principal entrance thereto in Sonthwark Park Road, opposite
(2) That so much of the parish which lies sooth of the before-???
lime be allocated to Inspector Cockburn.