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1897
friction with the public. The weekly removal of dust is now so quietly
effected that even those persons who were most opposed to it when it
was recommended in 1892 by the Medical Officer of Health must be
satisfied that the public have no real grievance. Facts speak louder
than words, and therefore to mention that in 1891 10,838 applications
were made to have dust removed from the people's homes and that
in 1897 there were only 312 is to prove that the work was most
admirably done. The present scheme was begun on June 17, 1895, and
at once good results were noticeable, as the following figures show:—
1891 10,138 applications made to remove dust.
1892 9,964 ,, ,,
1893 4,986 „ „
1894 4,506 „ „
1895 2,506 „ „
1896 245 ,, ,,
1897 312 ,, ,,
The success of the scheme will be better understood when it is
stated that there are 44,853 separate assessments in the district, and
that the proportion of complaints to every 100 assessments was only
0.695.
This is surely one of the greatest sanitary reforms that has ever
been effected in Islington, and one on the execution of which the
Vestry can justly pride itself.
Full particulars of the manner in which the scheme is worked
were given in the Medical Officer of Health's Annual Report for 1895.
WORKSHOPS.
The good character of the work effected by the Workshop
Inspectors was fully maintained during the year, the total inspections
made being 2,741 and the re-inspections 3,979.
A glance at the following short summary of some of their work
shows at once its usefulness.