 The Act provided for the appointment of Inspectors of Nuisances – the forerunners of today's environmental health practitioners – in areas of need.The Association of Public Sanitary Inspectors – the organisation which was to become the United Kingdom's Chartered Institute of Environmental Health – was established in 1883.Over subsequent decades, the role of environmental health practitioners changed and grew, with standards of qualification rising until, in the 1960s, it became a graduate profession.