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Section IV.
THE SANITARY CONDITION OP THE BOROUGH.
The tabular statements prepared by the Sanitary Inspectors show
that 1,320 separate premises were reported on by them during 1910, 247
of this number being with refererence to cases of notifiable infectious
disease, and 553 in the course of house-to-house inspections made in
certain of the poorer streets of the Borough.
It has been necessary to take legal proceedings for breach of the
Public Health (London) Act, in respect of one house only.
Drainage.—During the year 19 transferences were made to the
Surveyor's Department, in accordance with the Council's resolution of
the 15th April, 1908, of premises where re-drainage works were required.
During the year, systems of combined drainage, for which the Borough
Council was responsible, were carried out in respect of four premises at a
cost of £28 9s. 3d., and in respect of two premises at a cost of £18.
From 1896 to 1910 inclusive, the sum of £611 10s. 0d. has been expended
from the rates on the combined drainage of private property, equivalent
to an average annual outlay of £40 15s. 0d.

Disinfection.—During the past year, 307 premises have been
disinfected after cases of infectious or other disease, 83 of these being
rooms which had been in occupation by persons suffering from phthisis
ending fatally. In addition, 217 rooms were disinfected for the presence
of bugs and other vermin, and were subsequently stripped and cleansed
by the owners of the property.
At the disinfecting station 1,964 separate articles of bedding or
clothing were disinfected, and 1,136 beds, mattresses, &c., were destroyed
in the incinerator. The animals destroyed in the incinerator amounted
to 1,724, practically the whole of these being dead cats received from Our
Dumb Friends' League in Bywater-street.
There has been during the past year almost a complete absence of
any demand by the Education Authority for the cleansing of the persons
or disinfection of the clothing of elementary school children, nor have any
similar requests been received from inmates of common lodging houses in
the Borough.