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service, the Police are also allowed to retire on full pension

at the age of 45, whilst your petitioners (or the few who survi-

ve) cannot retire on pension under the age of 55, and cannot

acquire a full pension unless they have put in 35 years' service.

Your Petitioners submit that in this respect also they

should be put on an equal footing with the police, as no man can

be expected to endure the strenous life of a Sanitary Inspector

in the tropics for 35 years.

17. Your Petitioners submit that in order to afford an equal

opportunity to all of promotion and attainment of the maximum

scale of pay the classification of senior and first and second

class inspectors should be abolished and the following scale

adopted for the whole Inspectorial staff:-

MINIMUM SALARY £300 rising by annual increments of £20 to a MAXIMUM of 2600 at 27.

The salary of each officer to be fixed according to his length of service, i.e. an officer of 5 years' service would draw 2400, of 10 years £500 and of 15 years 2600, but no Inspector would be allowed to draw more than £400 unless he had passed the three qualifying examinations above mentioned.

18. In support of this proposal your Petitioners would point out that the titles of the offices "First Class" and "Senior" Inspector are misleading, as those officers do not in fact hold a rank superior to the second class Inspectors, and have no

authority over the latter.

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Since the Report of the Commission in 1906 each Inspector is personally responsible to the Medical Officer of Health and the Head of Sanitary Department alone, and all the duties of the Inspectors are interchangeable without reference to seniority

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