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First Class Inspectors: it is submitted that promotion should be
automatic in such cases, in order to give the Second Class
Inspectors an incentive to improve their qualifications at the
earliest possible moment.
14.
In past years your petitioners have always ranked on an
equal footing with Inspectors of Police in the matter of salary, and they learn with great surprise that the latter have just received a very considerable increase in pay, which far exceede the new scale for the Sanitary Inspectors as shown in the
following table:-
New
Scale
Sanitary
Chief or Senior Inspectors
2400 to £480
Police
£500 to £600
First Class
£320 to £360
£400 to £450
Second class
or
2220 to £300
2320 to 2360.
Sub-inspector
15. Your Petitioners cannot understand on what grounds this sudden discrimination has been made, as already pointed out the qualifications of a Sanitary Inspector entail a high degree of education, and (for the first class posts) technical training and knowledge of Chinese: the work is similar in many respects to that of Inspectors of Police and if the Police are exposed to risks of violence, your Petitioners are exposed to the more insidious risks of succumbing to fatal infections or contagious diseases in the course of their ordinary duties.
16.
Further the Police have many more privileges than your Petitioners, in particular they have much better prospects of promotion, and can attain after ten years service to a salary
£450
of 2560 with light and fuel, which is better than the maximum obtainable by a First Class Inspector after many years