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The number of deaths of illegitimate children under one year of age was
66, equal to a death rate of 205 per 1000 illegitimate births.
Section II-—SANITARY CIRCUMSTANCES OF
THE DISTRICT.
Closet Accommodation.
The only closet accommodation to be found in the Borough is of the watercloset
type, privies of other types being completely absent. Except for a
relatively small number of trough latrines in factories and workshops, schools
and institutions, these are all provided with separate flushing cisterns. In
connection with dwelling-houses, some of these are in outhouses and some
within the house itself.
In Section VIII. (Housing) of this Report (page 81) reference is made to the
circumstance that in tenement houses one closet has to serve more than one
tenement, with the result that there is lack of convenience and privacy in this
respect, and a division of responsibility in the maintenance of the closets
which frequently become insanitary in consequence.
Scavenging.
Reference is made to this subject in the Housing Section (see page 90).
SANITARY INSPECTION OF THE BOROUGH.
Inspections.—In connection with the following statement, reference may
be made to the statement as to staff on page 79.
Altogether 66,353 inspections, including 7,636 Food Control inspections
were made in 1919 by the staff of Inspectors and Visitors. These consisted of
39,399 initial inspections, including 7,631 Food Control inspections, and
26,954 re-inspections, including 5 Food Control re-inspections.
Of these inspections, 38,345 were made.by the District Sanitary Inspectors,
3,402 by the Sanitary Inspector for Factories and Workshops, 7,124 by the
Sanitary Inspectors for Food and Food places, and 17,482 by the Women
Sanitary Inspectors and Health Visitors.
The inspections made by each individual Inspector and Visitor arc shown in
table 10, on page 113.
The work of the various classes of Inspectors and Visitors is set out in tables
7, 8 and 9, on pages 109 to 112.
The inspections dealt with above are exclusive of the visits made by the
Council's Superintendents and Visitors working in connection with the
Maternity and Child Welfare Centres, who made 22,811 visits during the year,
(see page 59); and of the visits made by trained workers not paid by the
Council and working from the Centres; nor do they include the work of the
disinfecting stuff.