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Sanitary Work
Carried on during the past Year.
House-to-house.
The work of inspecting the district systematically by houseto
house visitation has been continued, and I am pleased to be
able to report that practically the whole of the district has
been inspected once. It is now about three years since
this work was commenced in a systematic manner, and many
lasting and important improvements have been effected which
{inter alia) have considerably increased the value of property.
But it is from a health point of view that we are interested.
Thousands of families are now living under better conditions
than they did previously.
It will be seen from the tables of the work carried out under
the direct supervision of Inspectors, an important item is the
number of closets which have been re-constructed in accordance
with the London County Council's bye-laws. The old hopperpan
was largely in use. Besides being a nuisance in itself, the
setting, as a rule, was so defective that on the smoke test being
applied to any drain, the joints of such closets invariably were
found to be faulty, and a constant source of danger, owing to
the escape of sewer-gas.
This work has taken up a considerable amount of the time
of the Inspectors, the premises having to be constantly visited
during the progress of the work to ensure it being carried out
efficiently.