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Inspector, called a Common Lodging-house Inspector,
was also appointed to visit them weekly, and
to see that the provisions for their proper management
were strictly observed.
Subsequently, in 1862, I obtained your sanction to
the appointment of another Sanitary Inspector for
the more effective performance of sanitary work,
especially in regard of that ordered by the Court; and
I drew up a detailed account of the duties of his office
(December 9, 1862). Four years after this, when the
passing of the Sanitary Act, 1866, imposed additional
obligations upon the duties of my office, I recommended
that the sanitary work of the City should be entirely
remodelled, and to this end you gave me the assistance
of four Sanitary Inspectors, who were thenceforward
to devote all their time to a proper and
systematic supervision of those houses and parts of
houses which were let in lodgings or occupied by
more than one family. You also appointed an
Inspector of Shipping to examine and report, according
to my instructions, as to the sanitary condition
of the shipping within the City division of the
Port of London. All this involved a good deal of
new work, as well as a more circumstancial performance
of old duties; and, therefore, it was necessary
that I should draw up specific instructions for the
business of the office. Those instructions met with
your approval, and were confirmed by you in the
month of January, 1867, from which time to the