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occupied "separately," yet, being occupied conjointly
with the back rooms, nothing can be done
to prevent such occupation.
"Houses let in lodgings" would be more
correctly described as " tenement houses." Efforts
were made during the year to place some of the
houses in North Paddington on the Register, but
the work was pushed aside by pressure of other
matters.
The results of the examination into the question
of housing families in which cases of infectious
disease occurred during the past year, indicate that
the control over overcrowding, which it would be
possible to exercise by attending to these dwellings,
may fairly be expected to assist in the reduction in
the amount of infectious sickness.
House Drainage.—After cases of diphtheria,
membranous croup, enteric and puerperal fevers,
the drainage, etc., of the houses infected receive
very minute attention, and are generally overhauled.
It is this class of work which occupies the greater
portion of the time of the Inspectors ; they not only
examine and report on the conditions constituting
the nuisance, if any, but they supervise the work
of abating such nuisance. A very considerable
proportion of the 11,809 visits of re-inspection
represents work of supervision of repairs and
alterations to sanitary fittings. There are good
reasons for holding that the officials indicating the
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