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Summary The great amount of work done by the Sanitary
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Operations staff is shewn in Table XVI. The work done was of
during 1894 a very thorough character and reflects great credit on
the Chief and District Sanitary Inspectors.
The house to house inspections, the means by which most
sanitary defects are detected were up to the average number and
would if other duties did not make more urgent calls upon the
staff, enable them to inspect every house in the parish during
the year, a result which it has been aimed at for some years.
The great number of complaints received from the public, intimations
of the existence of infectious disease, with removal to
hospital in many cases and inspection and disinfection in all,
together with the more systematic testing and reorganisation of
defective drains and other urgent matters render the inspectors
unable to give more than a comparatively small portion of their
time to this important work. Some premises require and obtain
several inspections during the year from the constantly recurring
defects found therein. It will be seen that the total number of
houses inspected is almost as great as in former years, the
difference being that such inspections formerly were in the
majority of cases from house to house, when of course a much
larger number can be inspected than when from the prevalence
of infectious disease or other causes each sanitary inspector has
to traverse the whole area of his district daily.
On the opposite Table is given in detail the sanitary
operations for the years 1888 to 1894.