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manure depots, etc. No new houses were registerd under the
by-laws for houses let in lodgings, and no routine house-to-house
inspections were carried out under the Housing, Town Planning,
etc., Act, 1909, the latter fact being on account of the war.
Extra duties were thrown upon the 12 male district Sanitary
Inspectors under the Local Authorities (Food Control) Order
(No. 1), 1917, under which they were appointed to act by the
Council on May 24th, 1917.
Infected Houses and Drainage Defects found by Male Inspectors.
A sanitary inspection made of infected houses, i.e., houses at
which infectious disease is notified compulsorily, and the sanitary
inspection includes, in the large majority of cases, the testing of the
drainage with the chemical test. Taking the ordinary notifiable
infectious diseases, out of the 974* infected houses dealt with
with during 1917, the results are as follow, the averages being
given in brackets for the past 25 years, 1891—1915:—
(a) 34, i.e., 3.5 per cent. were found to have defective drains,
i.e., a result was obtained with the chemical test employed
(average = 14.3 per cent.).
(b) 509, i.e., 52.2 per cent. showed defects in drains, traps,
fittings and appliances (average = 53.1 per cent.).
(c) 465, i.e., 47.8 per cent. showed no defects (average=46.9
per cent.).
Registration of Cow-Houses, Slaughter-Houses, Common
Lodging-Houses, and Milk Shops.
During 1917, the Cow-houses and Slaughter-houses, and
Common Lodging-houses licences were renewed by the London
County Council, with the following exceptions:—
(a) Cow-house—156, Hamilton Road, West Norwood;
(b) Slaughter-house—125, Hamilton Road, West Norwood;
whilst the applicants were registered by the Borough Council
as milk-sellers or purveyors of milk at the following premises,
which were passed as "suitable," i.e., in accordance with the
Council's requirements 23, High Street (West Norwood), 2,
Kennington Grove, 77, Larkhall Lane, and 75, Robsart Street.
The following application was withdrawn:—20, Cornwall Road,
Brixton Hill (Edward Richards).
* The above statistics do not include ophthalmia neonatorum, whooping
cough, measles and German measles and tuberculosis, which have been
omitted so as to keep the statistics for 1917 comparable with those for past
years. The figures for (a) whooping cough and (b) measles and German
measles infected houses during 1917 are:—(a) 41 and (A) 251 defective
drains, and (u) 327 and(b) 1,587 defective traps and appliances, out of
totals of (a) 698 and (A) 3,805 infected houses inspected, respectively. No
testing of drains is carried out as a routine in the case of ophthalmia neonatorum
and tuberculosis-infected houses.