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87
Summary
ofSanitary
Operations
during 1895
The great amount of work done by the Sanitary
staff is shewn in Table XVI. The work done was of
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 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 re-organisation 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 greater than 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. Inspections under the
Factory and Workshops Act also add much to the duties of the
staff.