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PUBLIC HEALTH (LONDON) ACT, 1901.
(a) Complain4ts.—During 1903 there were 2,826 complaints of
nuisances received at the Public Health Department. These were
all investigated by the respective Inspectors of the districts where the
nuisances were said to exist. Notices of abatement were served
where necessary.
(b) House-to-House Inspection.—The number of these inspections
made during 1903 was 493. These were made by the district
Inspectors, as the pressure of infectious disease and complaints
diminished. Naturally, the bulk of these inspections were made in
the denser populated parts of the Borough, viz.: Homerton, Hackney
Wick, and London Fields.
Almost the whole of the nuisances found during the above
inspections, viz., 2,778 were abated by means of an intimation notice
only, 255 required the service of Statutory Notices and 14 legal proceedings
for their abatement.
The re-inspections made during the abatement of nuisances found
reached the high figure of 30, 435.
(c) Infectious Disease.—The number of houses inspected after
infectious disease during the year numbered 2,369. The inspector
in each case reported as to sufficiency of isolation at home, from
which I was able to decide as to the desirableness of removal to
hospital or not. The Inspector also examined the premises including
the usual drain testing, to see if anything existed on the premises
ealling for abatement under the provisions of the Public Health
(London) Act, 1901.
The number of rooms fumigated was 2,253, and those stripped of
wall paper and cleansed 622, the number of articles taken to the