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Inspector of Nuisances.* Either of these officials may 

 enter and inspect any place in the district used for the sale 

 of meat, or slaughtering of cattle, and examine any cattle 

 or carcase of any cattle. 



The law in England did not contemplate, or rather the 

 interested persons who drafted the Act, did not intend to 

 contemplate a veterinary inspection of meat; excepting 

 in Manchester and Swansea, both of which hold special 

 and recent Parliamentary powers, the veterinary surgeon 

 can only be a Meat Inspector if he be a Medical Officer of 

 Health, or an Inspector of Nuisances. 



Under the Public Health (Scotland) Act, 1897, a veterinary 

 surgeon is approved as a meat inspector, and no medical 

 officer or sanitary inspector can examine a living animal 

 in connection with meat inspection, unless accompanied by 

 a veterinary surgeon. 



Under the same Act, provision exists which enables local 

 authorities to appoint a place where an animal alive or 

 dead may be inspected by a veterinary surgeon, and passed 

 or condemned as the case may be. A certificate granted 

 by a veterinary surgeon under these conditions exempts 

 the owner from penalty should the meat be subsequently 

 seized. But one very important clause in this Act, is that 



* Section 189 of the Public Health Act, 1875, requires every Urban 

 Sanitary Authority to appoint a Medical Officer of Health, a Surveyor, 

 and an Inspector of Nuisances. 



A Eural Sanitary Authority is not compelled to appoint a Surveyor, 

 but must appoint both the other officers. 



The above Act does not recognise the designation Sanitary Inspector, 

 the official designation is Inspector of Nuisances. The Public Health 

 (London) Act, 1891, does recognise the title of Sanitary Inspector. 

 The same Act requires the appointment of one or more Medical 

 Officers of Health for the district of each Sanitary Authority, and an 

 adequate number of fit and proper persons as Sanitary Inspectors. 

 AU the latter appointed in London since 1895, must be in possession of 

 a certificate of such body as the Local Government Board may approve. 

 This certificate in London is granted by the Conjoint Board. 



Outside the Metropolis the Inspector of Nuisances requires no 

 qualification, though the Sanitary Institute holds examinations in the 

 Provinces for those desirous of obtaining its certificate. 



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