sanitary authority or authorities shall then proceed to fill up the vacancy according to the terms of the approval so given.

Art. 6.-If any officer appointed under this order be at any time prevented by sickness or accident, or other sufficient reason, from performing his duties, the sanitary authority or authorities, as the case may be, may appoint a person, qualified as aforesaid, to act as his temporary substitute, and may pay him a reasonable compensation for his services; and every such appointment shall be reported to the Local Government Board as soon as the same shall have been made.

SECTION III.-Tenure of Office.

Art. 1.-Every officer appointed under this order shall continue to hold office for such period as the sanitary authority or authorities appointing him may, with the approval of the Local Government Board, determine, or until he die, or resign, or be removed, by such authority or authorities with the assent of the Local Government Board, or by the Local Government Board.

Provided that the appointments first made under this order shall not be for a period exceeding five years.

Art. 2.—Where any such officer shall be appointed for one or more sanitary districts, and any change in the extent of the district or districts, or in the duties, salary, or remuneration, shall be deemed necessary, and he shall decline to acquiesce therein, the sanitary authority or authorities by whom he was so appointed may, with the consent of the Local Government Board, but not otherwise, and after six months' notice in writing signed by their clerk or clerks, given to such officer, determine his office.

Art. 3.-No person shall be appointed who does not agree to give one months' notice previous to resigning the office, or to forfeit such sum as may be agreed upon as liquidated damages.

SECTION IV.-Duties.

The following shall be the duties of a medical officer of health in respect of the sanitary district for which he his appointed; or if he shall be appointed for more than one district, or for a part of a district, then in respect of each of such districts, or of such part::

(1.) He shall inform himself as far as practicable respecting all influences affecting or threating to affect injuriously the public health within the district.

(2.) He shall inquire into and ascertain by such means as are at his disposal the causes, origin, and distribution of diseases within the district, and ascertain to what extent he same have depended on conditions capable of removal or mitigation.

(3.) He shall by inspection of the district, both systematically at certain periods, and at intervals as occasion may

require, keep himself informed of the conditions injurious to health existing therein.

(4.) He shall be prepared to advise the sanitary authority on all matters affecting the health of the district, and on all sanitary points involved in the action of the sanitary authority; and in cases requiring it, he shall certify, for the guidance of the sanitary authority, or of the justices, as to any matter in respect of which the certificate of a medical officer of health or a medical practitioner is required as the basis or in aid of sanitary action.

(5.) He shall advise the sanitary authority on any question relating to health involved in the framing and subsequent working of such byelaws and regulations as they may have power to make.

(6.) On receiving information of the outbreak of any contagious, infectious, or epidemic disease of a dangerous character within the district, he shall visit the spot without delay and inquire into the causes and circumstances of such outbreak, and advise the persons competent to act as to the measures which may appear to him to be required to prevent the extension of the disease, and, so far as he may be lawfully authorised, assist in the execution of the same.

(7.) On receiving information from the inspector of nuisances that his intervention is required in consequence of the existence of any nuisance injurious to health or of any overcrowding in a house, he shall, as early as practicable take such steps authorised by the statutes in that behalf as the circumstances of the case may justify and require.

(8.) In any case in which it may appear to him to be necessary or advisable, or in which he shall be so directed by the sanitary authority, he shall himself inspect and examine any animal, carcase, meat, poultry, game, flesh, fish, fruit, vegetables, corn, bread, or flour, exposed for sale, or deposited for the purpose of sale or of preparation for sale, and intended for the food of man, which is deemed to be diseased, or unsound, or unwholesome, or unfit for the food of man; and if he finds that such animal or article is diseased, or unsound, or unwholesome, or unfit for the food of man, he shall give such directions as may be necessary for causing the same to be seized, taken, and carried away, in order to be dealt with by a justice according to the provisions of the statutes applicable to the case.

(9.) He shall perform all the duties imposed upon him by any byelaws and regulations of the sanitary authority, duly confirmed, in respect of any matter affecting the public health, and touching which they are authorised to frame byelaws and regulations.

(10.) He shall inquire into any offensive process of trade carried on within the district, and report on the appropriate means for the prevention of any nuisance or injury to health therefrom.

(11.) He shall attend at the office of the sanitary authority, or at some other appointed place, at such stated times as they may direct.

(12.) He shall from time to time report, in writing, to the sanitary authority, his proceedings, and the measures which may require to be adopted for the improvement or protection of the public health in the district. He shall in like manner report with respect to the sickness and mortality within the district, so far as he has been enabled to ascertain the same.

(13.) He shall keep a book or books, to be provided by the sanitary authority, in which he shall make an entry of his visits, and notes of his observations and instructions thereon, and also the date and nature of applications made to him, the date and result of the action taken thereon, and of any action taken on previous reports, and shall produce such book or books, whenever required, to the sanitary authority.

(14.) He shall also prepare an annual report, to be made to the end of December in each year, comprising tabular statements of the sickness and mortality within the district, classified according to diseases, ages, and localities, and a summary of the action taken during the year for preventing the spread of disease. The report shall also contain an account of the proceedings in which he has taken part or advised under the Sanitary Acts, so far as such proceedings relate to conditions dangerous or injurious to health, and also an account of the supervision exercised by him, or on his advice, for sanitary purposes over places and houses that the sanitary authority has power to regulate, with with the nature and results of any proceedings which may have been so required and taken in respect of the same during the year. It shall also record the action taken by him, or on his advice, during the year, in regard to offensive trades, bakehouses, and workshops. (15.) He shall give immediate information to the Local Government Board of any outbreak of dangerous epidemic disease within the district, and shall transmit to the Board, on forms to be provided by them, a quarterly return of the sickness and deaths within the district, and also a copy of each annual and of any special report.

(16.) In matters not specifically provided for in this order, he shall observe and execute, so far as the circumstances of the district may require, the instructions of the Local Government Board on the duties of medical

officers of health, and all the lawful orders and directions of the sanitary authority applicable to his office. (17.) Whenever the Diseases Prevention Act of 1855 is in force within the district, he shall observe the directions and regulations issued under that Act by the Local Government Board, so far as the same relate to or concern his office.

(18.) Where more than one medical officer of health shall be appointed by a sanitary authority, such authority, with the approval of the Local Government Board, may either assign to each of the officers a portion of the district, or may distribute the duties of medical officer of health amongst such officers.

SECTION V.Remuneration.

Art. 1.-The sanitary authority or authorities, as the case may be, shall pay to any officer appointed under this order such salary or remuneration as may be approved by the Local Government Board; and, where such officer is appointed for two or more districts, the salary shall be apportioned amongst the districts in such manner as the said Board shall approve.

Provided that the sanitary authority or authorities, with the approval of the Local Government Board, may pay to any such officer a reasonable compensation on account of extraordinary services, or other unforseen circumstances connected with his duties or the necessities of the district or districts for which he is appointed.

Art. 2. The salary or remuneration of every such officer shall be payable up to the day on which he ceases to hold the office, and no longer, subject to any deduction which the sanitary authority or authorities may be entitled to make in respect of Sect. III. Art. 3.; and in case he shall die whilst holding such office, the proportion of salary (if any) remaining unpaid at his death shall be paid to his personal representatives.

Art. 3.-The salary or remuneration assigned to such officer shall be payable quarterly, according to the usual Feast Days in the year, namely, Lady Day, Midsummer Day, Michaelmas Day, and Christmas Day; but the sanitary authority or authorities may pay to him at the expiration of every calendar month such proportion as they may think fit on account of the salary or remuneration to which he may become entitled at the termination of the quarter.

Given under our seal of office, this eleventh day of November,
in the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy-two.
(L.S.)
JAMES STANSFELD,

JOHN LAMBERT,

President.

Secretary.

INSPECTORS OF NUISANCES.

To the Guardians of the Poor of the several unions, parishes, and places in England and Wales, in which such guardians act as a Rural Sanitary Authority under the Public Health Act, 1872;

And to all others whom it may concern.

WHEREAS by section 10 of "The Public Health Act, 1872," it is enacted that it shall be the duty of every rural sanitary authority to appoint from time to time an inspector or inspectors of nuisances, for the purposes of the Sanitary Acts;

And whereas it is thereby further enacted that the Local Government Board shall have the same powers as they have in the case of a district medical officer of a union, with regard to the qualification, appointment, duties, salary, and tenure of office of officers of sanitary authorities, any portion of whose salary is paid out of moneys voted by Parliament; and that the same person may, with the sanction of the Local Government Board, be appointed the inspector of nuisances for two or more sanitary districts, by the joint or several appointment of the sanitary authorities of such districts:

Now we, the Local Government Board, deeming it expedient that regulations should be made with respect to the appointment, duties, salary, and tenure of office of inspectors of nuisances appointed by rural sanitary authorities, in all those cases where any portion of the salary of any such officer is paid out of moneys voted by Parliament, do hereby order and direct as follows:

SECTION I.-Appointment.

Art. 1.-A statement shall be submitted to the Local Government Board, showing the population and extent of the district for which the sanitary authority propose to appoint the inspector or inspectors of nuisances, and the salary or remuneration intended to be assigned; and where the circumstances render desirable the appointment of one inspector of nuisances for two or more sanitary districts, statements shall, in like manner, be submitted to the Local Government Board, showing the names of the districts to be combined for that purpose, the population and extent of each district, the mode in which it is intended that the appointment shall be made, whether jointly or severally by the sanitary authorities of those districts, and the amount of salary or remuneration proposed to be assigned to the officer appointed.

Art. 2.-When the approval of the Local Government Board has been given to the proposals submitted to them, the sanitary