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Inspectors in proportion to its population than the great majority
of the district boards and vestries in the metropolis. The County
Council, however, insisted that another Inspector was necessary,
and, yielding to its requirements, the Board, in December last,
proceeded to appoint an additional Inspector, and one also in
the place of Mr. Samuel Broadhead, who, in consequence of
certain irregularities had been called upon to resign. The
following were the successful candidates:—
Mr. William George Cook, Sanitary Inspector to the Corporation
of West Ham.
Mr. Joseph E. Johnson, Sanitary Inspector to the Town
Council of Kingston-upon-Hull.
Mr. Johnson has since resigned, and the Board at the
present time has only two Inspectors: having regard to the
enormous reduction in the population of the district and the
fact that the Board with two Inspectors has in its employ a larger
number of Sanitary Inspectors in proportion to the population
than the great majority of the other districts in London, it has
deferred for the present the question of appointing a successor
to Mr. Johnson.
The proportion, as compared with other districts in South
London, is shown in the following list:—
Inhabitants.*
St. Saviour, Southwark, one Inspector to 12,301
St. Olave, Southwark 12,723
Bermondsey 26,170
St. George, the Martyr 14,928
Newington 23,160
Rotherhithe 19,627
Lambeth 34,400
Battersea 21,508
Wandsworth 12,072
Camberwell 16,810
Greenwich 18,379
Lewisham 15,441
Woolwich 13,616
Plumstead 13,109
Lee 12,034
An average of one Inspector to 18,141 inhabitants.
* Or, if the services of James Barker, who acts as Assistant Inspector, be
taken into account, the proportion is one to 8,203 inhabitants.