NUISANCES.
If Mr T. B. Hannaford's letter to the City Council affords any fair criterion of the attitude of householders towards the Sanitary Inspector, the position of that official must be anything but a bed of roses. He has broad shoulders, but if such epithets as " coward," " scoundrel," " Nero," and "Caligula" are to be added to the other disagreeable penalties of his office, it would require a man with the temper of a si«nt and the hide of a rhinoceros to maintain his equanimity. In the course of his malodorous explorations the Inspector frequently encountors some virago who resents in forcible language, if not with a broomhandle, his interference with her fowl-house or piggery ; but tho heroic gallantry with which he bears the ordeal is worthy of a Stoic. It is whispered, also, that in addition to these disagreeable contingencies ho is not so well supported by some of the municipal officials as he deserves to be, and, judging from the easy-going way in which the Council treated Mr Hannaford's abusive letter, there appears to be some justification for the report.
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Observer, Volume 6, Issue 149, 21 July 1883, Page 3
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181NUISANCES. Observer, Volume 6, Issue 149, 21 July 1883, Page 3
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