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required in connection with each ordinary house (or premises)
the drains of which are being constructed, and a much larger
number of visits for large buildings, such as the South
Western Hospital, Board Schools, Stockwell Orphanage,
etc.
Connected with the Local Government Board's proviso
in 1896, viz., that another Report should be presented as
to the necessity (if any) for a still further increase in the
Lambeth Sanitary Inspectorial Staff, I reported to the then
Vestry on the 21st of March, 1898, on the causes of the
high death rates in 1897 in certain districts of the Parish of
Lambeth. In the course of this Report, I recommended the
appointment of (1) an extra Male Sanitary Inspector, and
(2) a Female Sanitary Inspector. Both of these recommendations
were eventually agreed to, the Male Sanitary Inspector
being appointed on July 21st, 1898, and the Female Inspector
on October 3rd, 1901. In this way the Sanitary Inspectorial
Staff was further increased to 14 Inspectors, giving
an average of 21,074 persons and 2,754 inhabited houses to
each Inspector (taking the 1896 and 1891 Censal Returns
as before), or of 21,564 persons and 2,965 inhabited houses
to each Inspector (taking the 1901 Censal Returns).
The new Borough Council took the place of the old
Vestry, and the old Parish became the new Borough of
Lambeth in 1900. New and important duties were thrown
upon the new Borough Council's Sanitary Inspectors by the
Local Government Act, 1899, in connection with the supervision
of Offensive Trades, Knackeries, Slaughterhouses,
Cowhouses, Milkshops, and Dairies, such duties having been
previously carried out by the Inspectors of the London
County Council.
On May 15th, 1902, the Council accepted Inspector Emblin's
resignation of his appointment as Sanitary Inspector
after 33 years' service, thereby reducing the Lambeth Sanitary
Inspectorial Staff to 13 Inspectors, and giving averages
of 23,223 persons and 3,193 inhabited houses to each Sanitary
Inspector (based on the 1901 Censal Returns), or of
22,695 persons and 2,950 inhabited houses (based on the
1906 Censal Population and the 1891 Censal inhabited
houses).
In a Special Report presented to the Public Health Committee
on April 18th, 1904, I reminded the Committee of the