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added that the Local Government Board, when requested to
sanction the appointment of Mr. Pettit as chief sanitary
inspector, in May, intimated that they had "decided to hold an
enquiry into the details of sanitary administration in the parish,
but, as owing to the engagements of their staff, they could not
hope that the enquiry would be held for some little time, they
would not withhold their assent to the assignment of the
addititional duties to Mr. Pettit as an experiment." The
intended enquiry had not been held at the close of the year.
The only change in the sanitary staff during the year was
the appointment of Mr. Sexton to be inspector for the northeast
district vice Mr. Poole, resigned.
Statutory Notices for the abatement of nuisances to the
number of 1,418 were issued during the year, by direction of
the Sanitary Committee.
Written Intimations of nuisances were served by the
Inspectors, under section 3 of the Public Health (London)
Act, 1891, to the number of 2,018. As a result of these intimations,
many works of sanitary amendment were carried out
without delay, thus realizing the intention of the Legislature,
and obviating the necessity of serving statutory notices. On
the written intimation form, and on the statutory notice, a note
is printed, which gives the person liable for the abatement of
the nuisance an opportunity of making what, for convenience,
may be called an " appeal " to the Sanitary Committee, against
the requirements of the sanitary inspector and the Committee
respectively. " Appeal," which is of rare occurrence,
usually takes the form of an application for extension of time for
carrying out required works. Supervision of reconstruction
and trapping of drains, and underground sanitary work generally,
is now carried out by the Surveyor, and information on the
subject must be sought in that officer's report. Many drains
were, as usual, reconstructed by the owners or occupiers of
houses, without the issue of sanitary notices, on the deposit of
plans for approval. Particulars on this head also will be found
in the Surveyor's report.