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Poplar 1898
Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health for the North District, comprising the Parish of St. Mary Stratford-le-Bow
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Public Health Department,
December 31st, 1898.
To the Medical Officer of Health, Bow District.
Sir,—
I beg to lay before you my ninth Annual Summary of the Sanitary work carried out in my Division during the year ending December 31st, 1898, as follows:—
| Inspections on complaints of nuisances | 510 |
| Do. on notifications of infectious diseases | 138 |
| Do. on house-to-house visitation. | 941 |
| Re-inspections | 3636 |
| Making a total of | 5225 visits |
Details and results of such inspections from time to time have been
entered in the book kept for that purpose, as prescribed by the
" Public Health (London) Act," 1891.
Of the total number (1589 houses and other premises) of primary
inspections made, I found that 50.1 per cent. of the premises thus
inspected various works of sanitary amendment—requiring the service
of 769 intimations and 495 notices—were needed to be carried out.
In many of these cases the required works were executed by the
respective persons liable, on the service of the usual written intimations
which in all cases precedes the service of statutory notices ; but in
18 cases it was found necessary to have recourse to legal proceedings,
necessitating 12 attendances at the police-court to ensure their
enforcement; and in 10 of these latter cases the needed works were
not completed until Magistrates' orders for their execution had been
obtained, under the provisions of the " Public Health (London) Act,
1891." In 8 cases the works were completed upon summons only.