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slaughter-houses, cow-houses; and dairies; with the disposal of refuse; regulations as to waterclosets,
unsound food, notification of infectious disease, cleansing and disinfection of premises after
infectious disease; isolation in hospital; exposure of infected persons, etc. Further additions to
the provisions of the Act were suggested, especially with regard to the control of infectious disease.
The report, subject to a slight variation in regard to proposed amendments to section 55 (notification
of infectious disease) was approved by the committee, and submitted to the Vestry. Some
of the amendments were adopted; others, and all but two of the proposed additions, were rejected.
The somewhat barren result of the enquiry was communicated to the County Council, but no
further action has hitherto been taken by that body.
THE WORK OF THE SANITARY INSPECTORS.
In no respect, perhaps, has the municipalisation of London produced greater effect than in
the stimulus given to the appointment of additional sanitary inspectors. In reports to the late
Vestry, I summarised returns prepared by the Medical Officer of Health for the County of London,
showing the number of inspectors employed by the several Vestries and District Boards of Works.
In the early part of the current year a revised return was issued, from which the subjoined summary
has been compiled.
Metropolitan Boroughs.
Enumerated Population
1901
(Parliamentary Census).
Number of
Sanitary Inspectors
1903.
Population to each
Sanitary Inspector
on the
basis of the Census,
1901.
West.
North.
Central.
East.
South.
Paddington
Kensington
Hammersmith
Fulham
Chelsea
Westminster
143,954
176,623
112,245
137,289
73,856
182,977
12
13
9
6
4
11
11,996
13,586
12,472
22,881
18,464
16,684
Marylebone
Hampstead
Pancras
Islington
Stoke Newington
Hackney
133,239
81,902
235,284
834,928
51,247
219,288
*8
7
16
20
8
14
16,655
11,700
14,705
16,746
17 082
15,663
Holborn
Finsbury
London, City of
59,890
101.476
26,908
5
9
†17
11,878
11,275
1,588
Shoreditch
Bethnal Green
Stepney
Poplar
118,705
129,681
298,548
168,838
6
9
18
8
19,784
14,409
16,586
21,105
South wark
Bermondsey
Lambeth
Battersea
Wandsworth
Camberwell
Deptford
Greenwich
Lewisliam
Woolwich
206,128
130,486
801,873
168,896
282,030
259,258
110,513
95,757
127,460
117,165
17
*9
13
11
‡11
14
7
§7
8
9
12,125
14 498
23,221
15,854
21,093
18,518
15,787
13,680
15,931
13,018
London
301
* Including one temporary inspector,
†Including seven meat inspectors.
‡ There are also five inspectors concerned with drains and sanitary fittings in old and new houses. These officers
are under the direction and control of the Surveyor.
§ Including two temporary inspectors.