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The Acts and Regulations were complied with in each
instance.
The following table gives statistics relating to the inspection
of canal boats for the last 5 years.
Year.
Boats
Inspected
Persons found on boats.
Totals.
Registered
for
Men.
Women.
Children.
1919
56
92
39
60
191
213
1920
90
165
48
79
292
351
1921
82
137
57
75
269
317
1922
68
117
45
44
206
251
1923
77
171
28
43
242
279
Of the 77 boats inspected 53 were occupied by men only,
6 by men and women, and 18 by men, women and children. The
number of children on the boats was 43, of which 22 were of
school age and 21 under school age. These children appeared
to be well cared for.
No cases of infectious disease were notified or discovered in
the canal boats, therefore isolation of patients and detention of
boats have not been necessary.
The men working the canal boats were on strike for 14 weeks
during 1923—from May to September.
The inspection of Canal Boats is part of the duty of the
Sanitary Inspector whose district includes that part of the
Borough in which the canal is situated. This year the duties
were carried out by Inspector Newdick. There is no separate
remuneration for this work.
THE MORTUARY.
In 1923 the number of post-mortem examinations was 54,
the number of bodies brought to the mortuary for the convenience
of relatives of the deceased was 145. The number of inquests
held in the Borough was 69. The number of bodies received
into the mortuary on account of death after infectious disease
numbered 4.