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It will be observed by reference to Table XVI, that 55,806
Sanitary operations were carried out during 1895, largest
number yet returned. The numbers for the years 1892, 1893
and 1894 are also given as a means of comparison, the Sanitary
Staff having been augmented in the earlier of these years.
The number of house inspections during 1895 was the
largest yet recorded, thirty thousand and fifty-one. Although
so many houses have been inspected, many of them several
times during the year, the great and most important work of all,
house to house inspection has not been universal in the parish;
the ideal towards which we should aim, being the inspection of
every house each year. I have reason to anticipate that this
matter will receive the earnest attention of all concerned and
steps be taken to carry it out.
There were four thousand two hundred and fifty-six
intimations served under Sec. 3, Public Health (London) Act,
1891. One thousand one hundred and ninety eight of these
cases required statutory notices under Sec. 4, &c., by order of the
Sanitary Committee and the Vestry, in addition to which one
thousand seven hundred and nine notices were served under
Secs. 62 and 65. In the large number of one thousand two
hundred and forty-three cases proceedings were ordered, sixtythree
summonses were issued, the other orders having been
complied with and Magisterial orders were obtained and enforced
in fifty-nine instances.
Three thousand eight hundred and seventy seven complaints
were received during 1895 and attended to. One thousand four
hundred and fifty-four houses were disinfected for sanitary
reasons, one thousand five hundred and thirty-eight certificates
of disinfection issued and disinfectants were distributed free of
charge in three thousand six hundred and sixteen instances.
Overcrowding was abated in thirty-three instances, but, this is
not at all a characteristic of this parish compared with those of
central London. One hundred and thirty-eight premises were