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Table XIV. gives the work carried out by your inspectors
during the past year arranged in tabular form. The house-to-house
inspections numbered 6,902, as compared with 5,944 in
1897. The complaints numbered 1,138, and the inspections
that were made in consequence of such complaints amounted
to 2,019. The complaints are exclusive of notices received
from the London County Council, that in 1,077 instances houses
were either without dust-bins or were provided with insufficient
dust receptacles.
In 1897 there were 1,209 complaints, so that there is
a slight reduction, which it is to be hoped may continue, but
as the sanitary condition of the Parish improves the standard
of requirements will also tend to be raised.
There was a considerable increase in number of inspections
of new buildings for the year, these numbered 2,102 as
compared with 1,453 in 1897.
In Sub-section C. is shown the description of work that
has been carried out by your Inspectors, which calls for no
detailed comment on my part except that the work in connection
with an alleged smoke nuisance is considerable, it being
often necessary to watch a suspected chimney for many
minutes at a time.
As a result of the house-to-house inspections and the
complaints that have been referred to above, 5,231 intimations
were served, followed up in 1,237 instances by statutory notices.
Of these 200 referred to houses let in lodgings. Furthermore
in 135 instances it was necessary to issue summonses to enforce
the requirements of t0he Committee.
There were 337 inspections of cow-houses and dairies
and 143 of slaughterhouses. Prior to the annual licensing by
the London County Council I myself visited the whole number
of slaughter-houses and cow-houses. In several instances it
was necessary to call the attention of the owners to various
defects. As these, however, were all remedied before the
day for lodging objections, I was able to withdraw opposition
in each case.
There were 360 inspections of bakehouses, excluding
75 by myself.
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