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Chemical and Bacteriological Work. The long-standing
arrangement with the Bacteriological Department of the Seamen's
Hospital has been in force throughout the year, whereby that Institution
carried out all necessary chemical and bacteriological work
for this Department, other than under the Sale of Food and Drugs
Act, and in this connection 1,229 specimens have been examined
for Diphtheria, 14 for Typhoid Fever, 271 for Tuberculosis, and
22 for other various.
Fuller details respecting results of the examinations of these
specimens will be found under the different headings of the
individual diseases.
HOUSING.
Generally speaking, the housing conditions in this Borough are
very poor, there being a large number of very old properties, and
a still larger number of houses of more recent erection, which,
owing to the labour and material difficulties of the last few years,
have been allowed to deteriorate very considerably, so much so, that
a good number of them are now almost beyond repair, at any rate
within any reasonable figure of cost. Along with all other districts
not only in London, but also throughout the kingdom, as there have
been no new houses erected during the last few years the condition
of overcrowding is now considerable. In fact, in my opinion,
the overcrowding in the Borough was never greater that it has been