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This statement shows clearly that, compared with the rest of London,
Islington is undermanned, particularly when it is recollected that this Borough
is far more a residential district, whose houses are mainly let in lodgings, than
a manufacturing centre, and that the tendency is for it to grow more and more
into a place of tenement houses or houses let in lodgings, which is proved by
the fact that the number of tenements increased from 72,652 in 1891 to 79,129
in 1901.
The heavy duties devolving on the staff may be gathered from the particulars
which are set out in Table I., which is arranged in Sanitary Inspectors'
districts. It is not, however, meant thereby that each district Inspector
performs all the work put down to his district, but it does show to a large
extent the work which each Inspector would have to perform if certain duties,
which the special Inspectors now carry out, were to be undertaken by him.
There is no Borough in the Metropolis where so much work has to be
performed, as is shown by Table II., in proportion to the number of Inspectors
employed.
When we examine the report on " Sanitary Officers" recently prepared by
the Medical Officer of Health of the London County Council, it is apparent
to every one that Islington does not now stand in anything like the position it
once occupied with respect to its work, but, in the light which that report
throws on the subject, has fallen to a low position. This statement is proved
by the following facts:—
The proportion of Inspectors to Inhabited Houses is greater in
the following 14 Boroughs than in Islington:—Bermondsey, Bethnal
Green, Finsbury, Hammersmith, Hampstead, Holborn, Kensington,
Paddington, Marylebone, St. Pancras, Southwark, Stepney, Westminster,
and the City.
The proportion of Inspectors to Tenements is greater in the
following 21 Boroughs than in Islington:—Battersea, Bermondsey,
Bethnal Green, Deptford, Finsbury, Greenwich, Hackney, Hammersmith,
Hampstead, Holborn, Kensington, Lewisham, Paddington, Marylebone,
St. Pancras, Southwark, Stepney, Stoke Newington, Westminster,
Woolwich, and the City.
The proportion of Inspectors to Tenements under 5 Rooms is
greater in the following 21 Boroughs than in Islington:—Battersea,
Bermondsey, Bethnal Green, Camberwell, Deptford, Finsbury, Greenwich,
Hackney, Hammersmith, Hampstead, Holborn, Kensington, Lewisham,
Paddington, Southwark, Stepney, Stoke Newington, Wandsworth,
Westminster, Woolwich, and the City.