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and no routine house-to-house inspections were carried out under the
Housing, Town Planning, etc., Act, 1909, the latter fact being on
account of the war. Extra duties were again thrown upon the 12
male district Sanitary Inspectors under the Local Authorities (Food
Control) Order (No. 1), 1917, under which they had been appointed
to act by the Council on May 24th, 1917.
Infected Houses and Drainage Defects found by Male Inspectors.
A sanitary inspection is made of infected houses, i.e., houses at
which infectious disease is notified compulsorily, and the sanitary
inspection includes, in the large majority of cases, the testing of the
drainage with the chemical test.* Taking the ordinary notifiable
infectious diseases, out of the 1055 infected houses dealt with during
1918, the results are as follows, the averages being given in brackets
for the past 25 years, 1891—1915:—
(a) 29, i.e., 2.7 per cent. were found to have defective drains,
i.e., a result was obtained with the chemical test employed
(average = 14.3 per cent).
(b) 493, i.e., 46.7 per cent. showed defects in drains, traps,
fittings and appliances (average = 53.1 per cent.).
(c) 562, i.e., 53.3 per cent. showed no defects (average =46.9
per cent.).
Registration of Cow-houses, Slaughter-Houses, Common
Lodging-houses, and Milk Shops.
During 1918 the Cow-houses and Slaughter-houses, and Common
Lodging-houses licences were renewed by the London County
Council, with the following exception:—
Slaughter-house—209, Coldharbour Lane.
A new Common Lodging-houses licence was granted in regard
to 11-13, York Road, Westminster Bridge Road.
The applicants were registered by the Borough Council as milksellers
or purveyors of milk at the following premises, which were
passed as "suitable," i.e., in accordance with the Council's requirements:—102,
Brixton Hill, 114, Brixton Road, 15, Bonnington
Square, 67 and 173, Coldharbour Lane, 304, Clapham Road, 45,
Camberwell New Road, Canterbury Road (Head Office), 118, Denmark
Hill, 141, High Street (West Norwood), 30, Kepler Road, 27,
Larkhall Lane, 43, Loughborough Road, 118 and 196, Norwood
Road, 56, Railton Road, 96, St. Mark's Road, 4, Tulse Hill, 131,
Vauxhall Walk, and 191, Westminster Bridge Road (15 being
simply transfers of existing approved licences).
*The above statistics do not include ophthalmia neonatorum, measles and
German measles and tuberculosis, which have been omitted so as to keep the
statistics for 1918 comparable with those for past years. The figures for
measles and German measles infected houses during 1918 are:—158 defective
drains and 1.123 defective traps and appliances, out of a total of 2,811 infected
houses inspected. No testing of drains is carried out as a routine in the case
of ophthalmia neonatorum and tuberculosis-infected houses.