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Islington 1909

Fifty-fourth annual report on the health and sanitary condition of the Metropolitan Borough of Islington

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[1909

HOUSES LET IN LODGINGS, Table CXXV. Summary of Sanitary Work carried out under Inspectors Ward and Hancock in Houses Let in Lodgings during the year 1909,

Inspector Ward.Inspector Hancock.Totals.
1st Quarter2nd Quarter.3rd Quarter.4th Quarter.Year.1st Quarter.2nd Quarter.8rd Quarter.4th Quarter.Year.
Number of Houses inspected1321011121194642703351872511,0431,507
Re-inspections, Calls made, etc9321,0158838193,6491,5201,1611,3191,3995,3999,048
Total inspections and calls1,0641,1169959384,1131,7901,4961,5061,6506,44210,555
Notices Served.
Intimation(Personally45393821143178997071418561
| By Post..22133624164449169208624
Statutory(Personally..........13111234848
{ By Post3....252317695560
Improvements.
Drains— Constructed............2..133
Re-constructed1......1..1123
Repaired......22......224
Ventilated1......1......1..2
Gully and other Traps fixed1..12442246108286
Urinals— Water supplied—cleansed......................
Cesspools— Abolished......................
Water Closets— W.C. erected with pan, trap and water supply1....3411......7
Pan and trap only provided23421132451425
Water supply provided233246311321516232882214
Ventilated......................
Position altered......................
Dust Bins— Provided1586114015720175999
Repaired1......1..........1
Areas— Constructed......................
Y ards— Paved....156......117
Re paved425415..3..2520
Sinks— Provided................222
Domestic Water Supply— Cisterns provided..........1....122
Cisterns repaired and cleansed258924..151293660
Water supply provided to dwelling house231..6..........6
Water supply provided for tenement house9......96023725115124
Other Improvements— Rooms cleansed or limewashed131392303942161645719246667
Walls and passages repaired, cleansed and whitewashed42026959..........59
Floor space ventilated....3..35..1..69
Floors repaired123112469....11056
Roofs repaired711252063......121275
Overcrowding abated..5131230..1415204979
Illegal use of underground rooms for sleeping discontinued..........1....344
Other Improvements or Nuisances abated871131301134431851252211576881,131
Rooms Disinfected..4....4....4..48
Total Improvements1743475302741,3253433973713171,4282,753
Total Premises Improved841371281254741922962151568591,333