[Report 1899] / Medical Officer of Health, Leeds City.

  • Leeds City Council
Date:
1899
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Credit: [Report 1899] / Medical Officer of Health, Leeds City. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PART IV.-INSPECTORS’ WORK. CHANGES IN STAFF. Works inspectors.—Considerable changes took place in 1899 as stated earlier in the report. In order to give greater time to the ward inspectors for house-to-house examinations, and drain testing, the strength of the staff was increased by four, the new appointments being four “ works inspectors,” whose duties would be to superintend the carrying-out of structural alterations ordered by the Committee in the several wards under their charge. o Of the four men first appointed to these new offices, three were chosen from the existing staff, and one was an inspector of experience who had been selected along with three other new men as an addition to our staff. The three members of our own staff who were selected were Messrs. J. Coupe, F. Sharp, and E. Turner. The two former had been ward inspectors since 1893, the latter since August, 1896. They all held the Certificate of the Sanitary Institute, obtained respectively in June, 1898, July, 1896, and July, 1895. The fourth, Mr. R. Macara, a new comer appointed in June, 1899, had the certificate of the Scottish Board, and held up to the time of his coming to Leeds, an appointment as inspector of a district of the county of Ayr. His experience in works % under the County Council led Mr. Swallow and myself to think that he would make an efficient works inspector. He remained with us nine months, and left on 30th March, 1900. His place as drainage inspector was supplied by Mr. E. Carratt, who had been in the service of the Corporation since May, 1891, as clerk and laboratory assistant, and since March, 1899, as ward inspector. Mr. Carratt held the certificate of the Sanitary Institute since June, 1898, and is one of the most promising men on the staff.