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THE
CHIEF INSPECTOR'S ANNUAL REPORT
on the work of
The Sanitary Department
For the Year ending 31st December, 1899.
To the Chairman and Gentlemen of the Sanitary Committee
of the Vestry of St. Matthew, Bethnal Green.
Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen,
I respectfully beg to submit for your consideration
the following particulars of the work carried out by the staff of
your department for the year 1899, being the fourth annual
report since the reorganisation of the office and my appointment
as Chief Inspector. In so doing, I venture to hope that for the
period under review you will find that the very important interests
committed to your charge have received the proper and careful
attention of the officers in your service, and that you will be of
opinion that the year's work is at least equal to any that has gone
before.
The total number of visits of all kinds made by the five Districts
Inspectors during the year amounted to 26,445, which exceeds last
year's total by 509 visits. These visits were made up as follows:
987 to cases of infectious disease, 1805 were inquiries into complaints
received respecting insanitary premises, 3302 were houseto-house
inspections, 345 visits were paid to trade premises such
as factories, workshops, bake-houses, slaughter-houses, &c., and
the remaining 20,006 were re-inspections of old cases, supervision
of repairs, &c. It will be noticed that there were 113 more cases