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HOSPITAL AND OTHER FORMS OF GRATUITOUS
MEDICAL RELIEF.
The Seamen's Hospital have admitted, treated and maintained
270 Greenwich persons for an average of twenty-four days
each, in addition to which there have been 2,102 Out-patients, who
attended on an average about three times each patient, making
altogether 6,306 attendances of persons belonging to the Borough
of Greenwich.
Miller General Hospital treated 341 Greenwich residents
as In-patients, and about 37,200 Out-patient attendances were
also made by Greenwich residents.
Blackheath and Charlton Cottage Hospital admitted 184
In-patients from Greenwich, and treated about 156 casualties,
making about 1,000 attendances for this purpose.
SANITARY WORK.
The tables on pages 20 to 25 and 53 to 59 summarise, as far
as possible, the Sanitary work of the Department; from this it will
be seen that a total of 20,698 houses and premises have been inspected
or re-inspected during the year; 1,980 intimation notices
have been served and 642 statutory notices.
It was found necessary to institute Police Court proceedings
in ten cases during the year.
There were altogether throughout the year 5,317 complaints
entered in the Public Complaints Register of the Department, but
this includes 4,228 complaints referred by the Borough Engineer
as to the provision of dust-bins.
Bakehouses. Ninety-four inspections have been made of
the various Bakehouses in the Borough, and 39 nuisances found
therein have been abated as the result
Factories, Workshops and Workplaces. Two hundred and
eighty-two inspections have been paid to these premises within the
Borough during the year. There were 202 workshop premises on
the Register at the beginning of the year, 8 have been added during
the year, and 8 have been taken off, leaving a total now on the
Register of 202. This total includes 14 laundries, 26 dressmaking
and mantle works, 7 fuel and firewood works, 3 cycle works, 8
milliners, and various others, including workplaces, such as 4
blacksmiths, 14 barge builders, 3 builders' yards, etc. Information
has been sent to H.M. Inspector of Factories with respect to
the insanitary and ill-lighted condition of a workshop.
Outworkers' Register.—Fourteen lists, containing 99 names,
have been received from employers within the District. Forty-nine
visits of inspection have been paid to these premises.