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Hackney 1894
Report on the sanitary condition of the Hackney District for the year 1894
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Accordingly on the 10th of October the following report was
presented by the Sanitary Committee to your Vestry, and adopted.
DISTRICTING OF SANITARY INSPECTORS.
Your Committee have had before them your reference on the subject,
and also the report of the Medical Officer of Health thereon, stating that the
present Sanitary staff is insufficient for the carrying out of the provisions of
recent Sanitary legislation, and having taken the matter into their serious
consideration they have now to submit their report thereon.
In assigning a District to each Inspector, your Committee recommend
that one Inspector be appointed to each of the Wards in the parish, as
approved by the London County Council, with the exception of Homerton
(including Hackney Wick), which will require two Inspectors, as it contains
over 6100 houses, and is therefore too large for one Inspector.
The following table shows the proposed Districts.
| No. of Ward. | Ward. | No. of Rated Householders | Minimum No. of Inspectors required |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 . | Stamford Hill | 4002 | 1 |
| 2 . | West | 4188 | 1 |
| 3 . | Kingsland | 3212 | 1 |
| 4 . | Hackney | 2615 | 1 |
| Mare Street | 3935 | 1 | |
| 6 . | South | 3691 | 1 |
| 7 . | Clapton | 3685 | 1 |
| 8 . | Homerton (North) | 3101 | 1 |
| That is, the District north of Homerton Road and Marsh Hill and to the West of Church Road. | |||
| Homerton (East) | 3000 | 1 | |
| That is, the District East of above. | |||
| 31429 | 9 | ||
The present staff consists of five permanent and two temporary Sanitary
Inspectors, but as the vacancy caused by the resignation of Mr. C. Phillips
has not yet been filled up, it will be necessary to appoint three Inspectors to
make up the required number to nine, and to constitute each a permanent
Inspector.
In submitting these recommendations, your Committee beg to point
out that the present salaries of the Sanitary Inspectors, including those
temporarily engaged, amount to £750 per annum, or an average of £107 per
Inspector. The whole of this sum is paid by the Hackney Vestry, but if the
number of Inspectors be increased to nine, and the permanent Sanitary
Inspectors reappointed under the Public Health (London) Act, 1891, sec. 108,