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The following Districts had one Inspector to more than
20,000 and fewer than 25,000 population :—
Rotherhithe 20,189
Shoreditch 20,391
Woolwich 20,657
Paddington 20,751
Camberwell 21,089
Bermondsey 21,368
St. Pancras 21,887
Clerkenwell 22,067
Lambeth 22,695
St.Marylebone 23,531
Chelsea 24,161
Poplar 24,181
The following Districts had one Inspector to more than
25,000 population:—
Kensington 28,410
Mile End 37,020
The area of Mile End is 677 acres, that of Kensington
being 2,190 acres. In 1893 the number of inspectors in the
metropolis (including nine in Kensington : males 7, females 2)
was 188. At the end of 1898 the total had risen to 256,
including 7 in Kensington ; 6 males and 1 female.
Statutory Notices for the abatement of nuisances to
the number of 1,408, were issued during the year, by the
direction of the sanitary committee.
Written Intimations of nuisance were served by
the inspectors, under section 3 of the Public Health (London)
Act, 1891, to the number of 1,949. As a result of these intimations,
many works of sanitary amendment were carried out
forthwith, thus realizing the intention of the Legislature, and
obviating the necessity for service of statutory notices. On
the intimation form, and on the statutory notice, a red ink
note gives the person liable for the abatement of the nuisance