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*These were 7 houses in a street, the rest of which (62 houses) were in Sub-Division III., and are
included in the 143 above.
At the last meeting of your Committee on the 31st March, when my report
of the 9th March upon the statistics as to the working of the Sanitary
Inspectors' Districts in North St. Pancras was considered, members of your
Committee asked me a number of questions as to the manner in which the
difficulty with regard to Inspectors' Districts in North St. Pancras could bemet,
and it was suggested that I should report upon the subject further.
In my report of the 9th March last the statistics showed with regard to
North St. Pancras that Sub-Divisions 5 and 4 (Maitland Park and Grafton)
are more than sufficient for one Inspector, and Sub-Divisions 3 and 2 (Gospel
Oak and St. John's Park) are also more than sufficient for one Inspector, but
that Sub Division 1 (Highgate) only provides four-fifths of an Inspector's work.
Disregarding the fact that the Highgate Sub-Division is straggly and very
hilly, and consequently takes longer time to inspect, and that it is also possible
that some little tightening might take place so as to diminish the number of
re-inspections, there would still remain at the least one-half to three-quarters of
an Inspector's work to be done in the Highgate Sub-Division, and the point at
issue is how to provide this.