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eighty-one. Although so great a number of 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 three thousand four hundred and sixty-one
intimations served under Sec. 3, Public Health (London) Act,
1891. Nine hundred and nine of these cases required statutory
notices under Sec. 4, &c., by order of the Health Committee
and the Vestry, in addition to which one thousand nine hundred
and fifty-two notices were served under Secs. 62 and 65, In nine
hundred and fifty-nine cases proceedings were ordered, sixty-five
summonses were issued, the other orders having been complied
with and Magisterial orders were obtained and enforced in fiftyfive
instances.
Three thousand three hundred and two complaints were
received during 1896 and attended to. One thousand six hundred
and ninety-eight houses were disinfected for sanitary reasons, one
thousand seven hundred and forty certificates of disinfection
issued, and disinfectants were distributed free of charge in six
thousand seven hundred and forty-eight instances. Overcrowding
was abated in sixty instances, but this is an evil not at all so
frequent in this parish as compared with those of central London.
Two hundred and thirty-five premises were cleansed or repaired.
Drains were tested by smoke in one thousand one hundred and
eighty-eight cases, the majority of cases being found defective.
Two thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine new or reconstructed
drains were subjected to the hydraulic test and found sound.
The large number of nine hundred and forty-one drains were
cleansed and repaired. The water supply apparatus to w.c.'s
were newly provided or repaired in nine hundred and eleven
instances, six hundred and eighty-seven cisterns were cleansed or
repaired. Two hundred and eighty-eight certificates of water
supply to new houses were issued.