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Islington 1900

Forty-fifth annual report on the health and sanitary condition of the Borough of Islington

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169 [1900

Table: Table CII. Giving a Summary of the Sanitary Work performed by the Inspectors in 1900.

Table CII. Giving a Summary of the Sanitary Work performed by the Inspectors in 1900.

Places Inspected.QUARTERS.The Year.
First.Second.Third.Fourth.
House to House Inspections249146195293883
Number of Houses Inspected1,3851,3951,2991,4105,489
Re-inspections, Calls made, &c.14,46511,87110,45012,43049,216
Visits to Bakehouses*42• •..6
Do. Cowhouses1679436
Do. Slaughter-houses1••618
Do. Stables and Yards1,0181,2339108544,015
Do. Courts, &c.1• •....1
Do. Factories and Workshops4••••37
Do. Fields, Lanes, &c.2..• •• •2
Do. Factories, Horse Slaughterhouses, Piggeries, &c., Belle Isle**534....57
Do. Under Sale of Food and Drugs Acts2131084767435
Dust Removals ordered1• •• •23
Registered Lodging Houses..........
Total Inspections17,41214,76612,91615,06460,158

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* See also Inspector West's report ante p. 153.
„ ,, ,, and Miss Gray's report ante pp. 148, 153.
„ ,, Jordan's report ante p. 162.
** „ „ Young's report, ante p. 143.
The staff of the Public Health Department effected very great improvement
in the sanitary condition of Islington from the commencement of the Public Health
(London) Act, 1891, to the time the Vestry ceased to exist, for they inspected 70,049
houses in which they caused 242,270 sanitary improvements to be made. The
following statement gives particulars of these, and it will not be too much to say
that the improved sanitation which they point to must have had a considerable