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To the Chairman and Members of the Bermondsey Vestry:—
Gentlemen,
I have the honour to submit to you my Twenty-first Annual
Report of the work done by your Inspectors during the year ending
March 25th, 1897. The table of statistics will give you some idea of
the various duties undertaken by the department, and how those duties
have been carried out.
TABLE III.
SANITARY WORK
From Lady-day, 1896, to Lady-day, 1897.
Houses, etc., Inspected and Reported to the Vestry by the Medical
Officer of Health, and the Sanitary Inspectors.
Houses and other places inspected ... ... ... ... 3606
Notices and intimations served ... ... ... ... 2431
Re-inspections ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 8601
Houses in a dirty and dilapidated condition, cleansed and
repaired, etc. ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 255
Houses disinfected, cleansed and purified ... ... ... 657
Houses disinfected to satisfaction of Medical Attendant ... 67
Cases of overcrowding abated ... ... ... ... ... 82
Houses closed as unfit for habitation ... ... ... 18
W.C.'s repaired, ventilated, and whitewashed ... ...
Closets panned and trapped or old pans cleansed or new ones 335
fixed ... ... ... ... ... ...
Closets supplied with water ... ... ... ... ... 170
Defective drains reconstructed, ventilated and trapped ... 283
Stopped drains cleared... ... ... ... ... ... 185
Cesspools emptied, cleansed and filled up with dry rubbish... 7
Yards and forecourts paved ... ... ... ... ... 311
Reconstructed drains and branches tested with water ... 936
Houses supplied with water ... ... ... ... ... 27
Defective roofs repaired ... ... ... ... ... 228
Defective rain-shoots and gutters repaired ... ... ... 216