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Fulham 1893

Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health for the year ending December 31st, 1893

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42. Owner, 38, Stanley Road, ditto Withdrawn.
43. ,, 4o, „ ditto „
44. ,, 44, ,, ditto „
45. ,, 48, „ ditto „
46. „ 50, „ ditto „
47. ,, 62, ,, ditto „
48. Wickens, Pease & Co., conveying offensive refuse
at improper hours „
49. J. Lake, ditto „
50. Owner, 13, Greynound Road, failing to comply
with magistrate's order
51. Owner, 39, Hannell Road, failing to comply with
Vestry's notice
52. Owner, 13, Humbolt Road, insanitary condition
53. ,, 15, ,, ditto
54. „ 2, Challoner Street, ditto
Fined £1 and
3s. costs.
Withdrawn,
work done.
Order to do
work within
14 days,
6s. costs.
Ditto.
Ditto.
Allusion has previously been made to the neglect of certain very
necessary work owing to the insufficient number of Sanitary Inspectors,
and the Vestry must clearly understand that the present staff is quite
inadequate to properly perform the duties devolving upon the Sanitary
Authority. If Fulham be compared with the rest of London, this
deficiency is most noticeable, as taking the whole of the Metropolis
there is one Sanitary Inspector to every 21,000 inhabitants, while in
Fulham there is only one to every 35,000; so that two additional
Inspectors are needed to merely bring us up to the average level of
other districts, and no Sanitary Authority has been accused of undue
extravagance in respect of the sanitary staff. Then it must be borne in
mind that there has been no increase in the number of Sanitary
Inspectors since January, 1891, and since then not only has the
population of Fulham increased by some 18,000, but the Public
Health (London) Act, 1891, and the Factory and Workshop Act, 1891,
have come into operation, both of which impose many additional
duties on the Sanitary Authority. The attention of your Vestry has
been respeatedly drawn to the necessity for increasing the number of