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their families, the charge being only one guinea per week,
covering medical attendance, board, lodging and nursing.
Application for admission should be made at the Board's
Offices at Catford.
SANITARY.
Table six in the Medical Officer's Report shows the
number of complaints brought under the notice of the Board
and the Committees, and the proceedings taken thereon. On
reference to such table it will be seen that upwards of 8000
houses were inspected during the year, and that sanitary
amendments were found to be required in a great many cases.
In all such cases the proper notices were served and the
required amendments were carried out.
There are in so large a district many instances in which
nuisances or sanitary defects can only be brought to the
notice of the Board or its Officers by the occupiers or persons
interested. On receipt of notice of any nuisance or defect
the Board's officers will at once attend to the matter, and
proceedings will be taken if the defect comes properly within
the Board's jurisdiction under the Sanitary Acts.
Notice of all cases of infectious disease should be at once
given to the Board, when assistance and advice will be given
in connection with the requisite disinfecting work, and in
very poor cases the expense of that work will be defrayed by
the Board. Bedding and other articles may be disinfected in
the Board's disinfecting apparatus, the only charge being
that for horse hire, the Board providing an iron cart for the
conveyance of the articles. Work of this character was
carried out in many cases during the year.
The house inspection .above referred to included the
inspections made under the regulations adopted by the Board
as to houses let in lodgings, or occupied by members of more
than one family. Those regulations are referred to on the
following page.
During the year there were 274 complaints or requests
as to the removal of dust. Personal enquiry is made into
each such case. In the majority of cases it is found that the