[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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    The work of these inspectors is somewhat arduous. The distances to be covered are great, and the demands of con¬ tractors somewhat exasperating. The position is a fine training for the faculty of arrangement. Ward inspectors.—The elevation of the three men to the post of works inspectors left three vacancies among the ranks of the ward inspectors. Two other vacancies had occurred, however, earlier in the year. Mr. G. Sainsbury, who having the previous month obtained the certificate of the Sanitary Institute, had been appointed in May, 1897, as ward inspector in East Hunslet, left us in February, 1899, to take another position under the Corporation as inspector of new buildings. In May, 1899, Mr. Roger Marshall, who had been with us since December, 1896, and who held the certificate of the Sanitary Institute, left us to become inspector of nuisances and surveyor at Fenton, in Staffordshire. These two vacancies were filled up in March and May by the appointment of Mr. E. Carratt, already mentioned, and Mr. F. Spetch, respectively to the Holbeck and East Hunslet wards. Mr. Spetch had obtained the certificate of the Sanitary Institute in December, 1898, and had been in the selected list on a previous occasion. The vacancies created by the three appointments as works inspectors were filled up by the selection of Mr. Philip Raskin, Mr. R. Haigh, and Mr. F. H. Williams, who commenced their work respectively on the 5th June, 20th June, and 1st July, 1899. The two latter held certificates of the Sanitary Institute, both dated July, 1892. These two were appointed respectively to the Bramley and West wards, from which Messrs. Coupe and Turner had been promoted. The other appointment, that of Mr. Raskin, was made under somewhat different circumstances.