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house-to-house work is of necessity much less than in any previous
year. The actual figures for the primary inspections are:—
Infectious Cases 2,253
Complaints 1,988
House-to-House Inspections 1,447
Trades Inspections 174
Ee-inspection of Cases in Hand, Supervision of
Eepairs, etc 20,852
Making a Total of 26,714
primary visits made by the five District Inspectors.
Deducting the re-inspections, this gives the total of primary inspections
as 5,862, and taking the balance of 20,852 re-inspections,
we find that every case coming to the office has taken about 3.6
visits for its completion. The nuisances abated amounted to
3,607. The number of cases in band at the end of the year were
508, or not quite 102 per District Inspector.
To ensure the abatement of the nuisances found
Notices Served existing by the above visits, there were served :
and 2,767 Intimation Notices uuder Section 3, 1,576
Proceedings Statutory Notices, and 535 Final Notices.
Taken Under Following on these notices, legal proceedings
the under the Public Health Act were taken as
Public Health follows:—Including the summonses issued but
(London) Act. not returnable this year, there has been a total
of 111 summonses, disposed of as follows:—
Withdrawn, Works done previous to hearing 50
Nuisance Orders made 16
No Order as to Costs 1
Withdrawn for fresh service of Notice 1
Penalties imposed 27
Dismissed (see note on opposite page) 5
† Adjourned sine die (see note on opposite page) 2
Eeturnable in 1903 9
Total 111