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Of this number only 163 inspections were made as the result
of complaints by householders and others, and this circumstance will
serve to accentuate the importance of prosecuting a fairly constant
system of house-to-house inspection in at least the poorer parts
of the Parish. It is difficult to over-estimate the value such a
measure has in preventing the origin and spread of preventable
sickness.
The slaughter-houses, bake-liouses, cowsheds and dairies
situated in the Parish were all duly inspected throughout the
year.
The factories and workshops have all been inspected during the
year, and I have kept the list of out-workers up to date.
I have repeatedly made analysis of the drinking water supplied
to the Parish Jay the New Eiver Company, and the results have
invariably been satisfactory.
HOUSES LET IN LODGINGS.
In the Parish of Stoke Newington, more especially in the
Southern Division, there is a considerable number of houses let in
lodgings under circumstances and conditions which render it desirable,
in the interest of personal and public health, that they
should be registered and inspected at frequent intervals.
A house which possesses every convenience for decent and
healthy living where one family is concerned, has under these
altered circumstances, its sanitary provisions overtaxed, with the
result that apparatus frequently gets out of order, and it is difficult
to keep the premises in a sufficient state of cleanliness. In
addition to presenting conditions which are favourable to the
appearance of disease, these tenemented houses, by reason of the
overcrowding in them, favour its spread when the disease is of an
infectious nature, and it is likely, since the prime necessity for the
registration of such houses arises from the conversion of houses
intended for one family into tenement dwellings housing more than
one family, that such necessity will increase, owing to the growing
difficulties of housing within the Metropolitan area, an increasing
population in the neighbourhood of its work.