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The names and addresses of 39 home-workers were forwarded
during the year by employers or Councils to the Medical Officer
of Health, as required by the Act.
One of these 39 home-workers resided outside the district.
The premises of the home-workers residing in the district have
been visited.
No case of infectious disease was reported on the premises
of out-workers during the year.
SANITARY ADMINISTRATION.
Staff.
There are four inspectors on the active staff of the Health
Department— the Inspector of Nuisances and three other Sanitary
Inspectors. Each Inspector has allotted to him one of the four
districts in which the Urban District has been divided. Two of the
Inspectors are further appointed Inspectors under the Canal Boats
Acts. Each Inspector is appointed an Inspector under the Housing
Acts and as Inspectors for the purposes of the Local Authority
under the Factory and Workshops Acts, and Dairies, Cowsheds,
and Milkshops Regulations, 1900. In addition to these the Sanitary
Inspectors are appointed Inspectors for the purposes of:—
(1) Towns Improvements Clauses Act, 1875 (Sec. 131).
(2) The Sale of Horse-flesh Regulation Act, 1889.
(3) Shops Acts, 1912-13.
(4) Petroleum Acts.
Two Health Visitors, who are also engaged part time in School
Inspection work, are appointed for the work in connection with
the Notification of Births Act, 1908. Certain other health work
is carried out by these officers, such as the work arising out of
the " Tuberculosis Order," enquiries in connection with certain
cases of infectious diseases, notifiable and non-notifiable.
The Clerical Staff consists of 4 clerks and an office boy,
who also carry out the clerical work in connection with the
Medical Inspection of School Children.