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Section IV.
THE SANITARY CONDITION OF THE BOROUGH
The tabular statements prepared by the Sanitary Inspectors show
that 1,366 separate premises were reported on by them during 1911, 311
of this number being with reference to cases of notifiable infectious
disease, and 506 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 breaches of the
Public Health (London) Act, in respect of six houses.
Drainage.—During the year 12 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 a system of combined drainage, for which the Borough
Council was responsible, was carried out in respect of four premises at a
cost not yet ascertained. From 1896 to 1910 inclusive, the sum of
£611 10s. Od. has been expended from the rates on the combined
drainage of private property, equivalent to an average annual outlay of
£40 15s. Od.

Disinfection.—During the past year, 319 premises have been disinfected
after cases of infectious or other disease, 44 of these being
rooms which had been in occupation by persons suffering from phthisis
ending fatally. In addition, 240 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, 1,765 separate articles of bedding or
clothing were disinfected, and 1,129 beds, mattresses, &c., were destroyed
in the incinerator. The animals destroyed in the incinerator amounted
to 1,014, practically the whole of these being dead cats received from
Our Dumb Friends' League in Bywater-street. Other arrangements
have now been made for the disposal of the dead bodies of these cats,
and they are no longer brought to the Council's incinerator.