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BET 9
THE
Chief Inspector's Seventh Annual Report
on the work of the
PUBLIC HEALTH AND HOUSING DEPARTMENT,
for
The Year ending December 31st, 1902.
To the Chairman and Gentlemen of the Public Health and
Housing Committee of the Metropolitan Borough of
Bethnal Green.
Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen,
I respectfully beg to submit my Seventh Annual Report
of the work and proceedings carried out in your department for
the year ending December 31st, 1902.
As regards the total number of inspections
"Work of the made, it is practically impossible to make any
District comparison of this past twelve months with
Inspectors (5). any other previous year, in consequence of the
outbreak of Small Pox, which commenced towards
the latter part of 1901, and continued more or less spasmodically
until October, 1902. Although the total number of
cases only amounted to 511, it is apparent that arising out of
them the number of enquiries to be made and "contacts" to be
kept uDder observation were so numerous that the ordinary routine