The Inspector was a very obliging person, and procured us a table and two chairs.

The essential difference between a Woman Sanitary Inspector and a Health Visitor is that the Woman Sanitary Inspector is a statutory officer with a legal position, having definite rights of entry and certain statutory powers for enforcing the Public Health Acts, while a Health Visitor is a purely advisory officer, with no legal status or right of entry or power to carry out any of the provisions of the Public Health Acts.

Inspector Nettings, Hewitt was told, was in charge of the case, and as the inspector was an acquaintance of his, and was then in the rooms upstairs, Hewitt went up to see him.

" The Educational Inspector, a very keen, thoughtful and competent educationist, was a disappointed man, like so many of his Service.

" Such a message from a man who in official eyes was no more than a Chief Inspector of Police was in itself a portent.

[Footnote 1: The ideal inspector is, of course, a help and not a hindrance to the teacher, acting as a propagator of new ideas and bringing into touch with one another, workers who are widely separated.

The Inspector-in-charge was a Bengalee, named Bose, who was a very intelligent officer and keen on his work.