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Section IV.
THE SANITARY CONDITION OF THE BOROUGH.
The tabular statements prepared by the Sanitary Inspectors show
that 1,432 separate premises were reported on by them daring 1909, 454
of this number being with reference to cases of notifiable infectious
disease, and 487 in the course of house-to-house inspections, made in
certain of the poorer streets in the Borough.
It has been necessary to take legal proceedings for breaches of the
Public Health (London) Act, in respect of four premises only.
Drainage.—During the year 18 transferences were made to the
Surveyor's Department, in accordance with the Council's resolution of the
15th April, 1908, of premises where re-drainage works were required.
There was no demand in 1909 upon the Borough Council to reconstruct
any combined systems of drainage, for which the Council is responsible.
From 1896 to 1909 inclusive, the sum of £565 has been expended from the
rates on the combined drainage of private property, equivalent to an
annual outlay of £40 7s.

Disinfection.—During the past year, 497 premises have been
disinfected after cases of infectious or other disease, 92 of these being
rooms which had been in occupation by persons suffering from phthisis
ending fatally. In addition, 118 rooms were disinfected for the presence
of bugs and other vermin, and were subsequently stripped and cleansed by
the owners of the property.
At the disinfecting station 4,968 separate articles of bedding or
clothing were disinfected, and 1,118 bed, mattresses, &c., were destroyed
in the incinerator. The animals destroyed in the incinerator amounted
to 749, practically the whole of these being dead cats received from Our
Dumb Friends' League in Bywater-street.
There has been during the past year almost a complete absence of
any demand by the Education Authority for the cleansing of the persons
or disinfection of the clothing of elementary school children, nor have any
similar requests been received from inmates of common lodging houses in
the Borough.