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The more detailed system of house inspection registration
adopted in the Health Department since the passing of the Housing
and Town Planning, etc., Act, 1909, and the more extensive requirements
imposed on property owners, e.g., additional water supplies
to houses, necessitating a considerable number of reinspections
by the District Inspectors, are further factors which have tended
to a reduction of house-to-house inspections. The inspection of
houses reported by the London County Council (Education
Authority) to be verminous has also taken up a good deal of the
time of the Inspectors.
The following summary shows the number of houses inspected,
and the number of defects found in each of the sanitary districts
in 1912:—

The percentage of houses in which sanitary defects were on
inspection found to exist was 66 8 per cent., as compared with
61 per cent. in 1911, and varied from 48 per cent. in No. 1 district
to 80 per cent. in Nos. 6 and 7 districts.