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quantity for destruction. Up to quite recently these were
pricked under the supervision of one of the wharves inspectors,
soaked in disinfectant, and put into barges, by which they
were transported out of reach of persons who rake over rubbish
heaps.
A few days ago a large quantity of tins were collected from
a firm in this Borough by a van from the Surveyor's Department
and deposited on a piece of vacant ground off Trundleys
Road, Deptford. They were only covered with a light layer
of earth, and no doubt would have been an attraction to a certain
class as soon as their whereabouts was discovered. A man
was sent down immediately it came to our knowledge, who
pricked them so they could not be used again.
It seems to me the proper way to destroy this stuff is to
prick the tins and then put them in the destroyer, but as one
of the principal functions of this is to raise steam there is an
objection to putting them into the furnaces from an engineering
point of view.
There are two alternatives to putting them in the destructor,
the first is to let them go to the new "tip" after
they are thoroughly pricked and soaked in disinfectant. After
deposit they should then be covered with two or three feet
of earth; the other method would be to open the tins and
empty out the contents. This is the next best method to
burning, but both of these, especially the emptying of the tins,
are going to cost considerably more than putting them in the
destructor."
Inspections.
In Table XII. of Appendix will be found particulars of the
general sanitary work by the District Inspectors during 1913, and
in Table IX. the number of premises on the Registers to which
special attention has been paid.
The house-to-house inspections number 4,270. This is 50
above the total for the previous year, and is an average of 534
per Inspector, against 528 in 1912.
4,829 intimation notices were served, compared with 4,592
and 1,273 statutories, against 1,160 in the previous year.
The following table shows the work done by the District Inspectors
during the year:—