Job Description:

• 1) Conducts experiments to detect presence of harmful or pathogenic bacteria in water, food supply, or general environment of community and to control or eliminate sources of possible pollution or contagion: Makes periodic laboratory counts of bacteria in water supply.

• 2) Analyzes samples of sewage for harmful micro-organisms and for rate of sludge purification by aerobic bacteria.

• 3) Examines milk, shellfish, and other food items for micro-organisms constituting menace to public health.

• 4) Cooperates with hospitals and clinical laboratories in identifying micro-organisms taken from diseased persons to determine presence of bacteria causing contagious or epidemic diseases.

• 5) May inoculate members of community against contagious diseases.