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Borough.
Miscellaneous:—
Dead bodies removed to public mortuary for sanitary
reasons 6
Goods disinfected after infectious cases at stations 3247
Goods destroyed after infectious cases 360*
Number of samples taken for analysis (Food and Drugs
Act) 179
Unsound Food. Number of boxes of fruit, &c.,
condemned and destroyed 10†
Library books destroyed at Librarian's request 50
Proceedings Taken:—
Statutory notices issued 335
Intimations issued for sanitary works, &c., including
infectious disease cases 964
Legal proceedings in respect of defective sanitary
arrangements, nuisances, &c. 21
Legal proceedings in respect of food adulteration 11
Correspondence:—
Number of letters written in connection with sanitary
matters, including those of Medical Officer of
Health 1095
Daily returns of infectious cases sent to Metropolitan
Asylums Board 202
Notification of infectious cases sent to School Authorities 522
Entries in Inspectors' Report Books 833
,, Inhabitants' Complaint Book 36
Certificates of Disinfection given 348
Certificates of infectious diseases for removal cases 289
Notices sent to the Public Library 170
The cow-houses and slaughter-houses were inspected by the
Medical Officer of Health prior to licenses being renewed in
October last, and a list of the retail bakehouses under inspection
in Chelsea forms a separate Appendix.
There are 113 Dairies and Milkshops in the Borough. These
have been registered and periodically inspected by the Sanitary
Inspectors.
Sanitary Inspectors.
ALEXANDER GRANT (Chief).
G. R. METZLER.
J. W. KING.
W. THORPE.
*An additional van load of clothing, bedding, &o., was destroyed by the
executors of the deceased. The articles being of too miscellaneous a character
to allow of a correct inventory being taken.
†This does not include unsound food condemned in the streets and destroyed,
for which no condemn note was given.