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Islington 1910

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Islington, Metropolitan Borough of]

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1910]

HOUSES LET IN LODGINGS. Table CXI. Summary of Sanitary Work carried out under Inspectors Ward and Hancock in Houses Let in Lodgings during the year 1910,

Inspector Ward.Inspector HancockTota1.
1st Quarter2nd Quarter.3rd Quarter.4th Quarter.Year.1st Quarter.2nd Quarter.3rd Quarter.4th Quarter.Year.
Number of Houses inspected1181501041144862592862842641,0931.579
Re-inspections, Calls made, etc.8849638521,0883,7871,4521,4271,3151.5205,7149,501
Total inspections and calls1,0021,1139561,2024,2731,7111,7131,5991,7846.80711,080
Notices Served.
IntimationPersonally242281771978010483364435
By Post2932272911773077989308425
StatutoryPersonally......811272828
By Post..77161211185764
Improvements.
Drains—
Constructed......................
Re-constructed2......2..31..46
Repaired..2..1334311114
Ventilated............1....11
Gully and other Traps fixed......2231210204547
Urinals—
Water supplied—cleansed......................
Cesspools—
Abolished......................
Water Closets—
W.C. erected with pan, trap and water supply11....3....1..14
Pan and trap only provided76262113271334
Water supply provided3354514117939152928111290
Ventilated........................
Position altered11......11..........11
Dust Bins—
Provided..87621201015297495
Repaired......224......46
Areas—
Constructed......................
Yards—
Paved..........1......11
Re paved33381721281330
Sinks—
Provided....3..3....7172427
Domestic Water Supply—
Cisterns provided..........1......11
Cisterns repaired and cleansed101010..30215..102757
Water supply provided to dwelling house1....122......24
Water supply provided for tenement house..2....27106174042
Other Improvements—
Rooms cleansed or limewashed4212213310039722418127796461,043
Walls and passages repaired, cleansed and whitewashed27501213102..6919795197
Floor space ventilated1..225....1127
Floors repaired1710199552....91166
Roofs repaired1919311281107122857138
Overcrowding abated476320132013196585
Illegal use of underground rooms for sleeping discontinued....2..23..14810
Other Improvements or Nuisances abated1191131261304881801421211776201 108
Rooms Disinfected......1143..78
Total Improvements2984074073371,4493157343734611,8833,332
Total Premises Improved1531791331616261702301331847171,343