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The works committee is a very important one, Paget, 17,662,
17,670.
Ten out of 14 vestrymen mentioned as property owners are on
the works committee, Paget, 17,663.
The unusual number of property owners on the works committee
only shows they are thought fitter for the work than other
members, Paget, 17,664, 17,665.
The works committee look after roads, &c., and has nothing to
do with house property, Paget, 17,665, 17,667.
The works committee does not form the nucleus or centre of the
vestry, Paget, 17,666, 17,667.
Seven of the 14 vestrymen holding property are members of the
appeal and assessment committee, Paget, 17,668, 17,671.
There is nothing in the functions of the works committee to
encourage house owners to become members, Paget, 17,670.
If so many property owners are members of the assessment and
appeal committee, it is because they are thought the best
judges of assessment questions, Paget, 17,671.
The vestry honestly selects for its various committees, men considered
best and fittest for the duties, Paget, 17,672.
Three sanitary inspectors are employed in, Paget, 17,674.
The third inspector is also coroner's officer, sexton of the church,
messenger to the vestry, and assistant sanitary inspector,
Paget, 17,675-17,677.
The third sanitary inspector was engaged to relieve the other
two from the work of delivering summonses, Paget, 17,67517,677.
The third inspector is sometimes employed to assist the other two
in their work, Paget, 17,676-17,678.
The third sanitary inspector in, was formerly in the jewellery
trade, Paget, 17,679, 17,687.
The third sanitary inspector requires no special training for the
work he has to do, Paget, 17,680.
The third sanitary inspector when surveying acts under the
medical officer and the other inspectors, Paget, 17,681.
The third sanitary inspector is not to take upon himself any
personal responsibility, Paget, 17,681.
Regular practised inspectors are employed to visit the homes of
the people in, Paget, 17,685.
The third sanitary inspector is a very useful officer, Paget, 17,687.
The vestry did not discharge the sanitary inspector solely on
account of neglect of duties, Paget, 17,688-17,697.
Lord Compton's statement, that the visits of sanitary inspectors
are infrequent and merely formal, is unreliable, as he can
know nothing personally about the matter, Paget, 17,69817,701,
17,873, 17,874.