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duties were thrown upon the 12 male district Sanitary Inspectors
under the Increase of Rent and Mortgage Interest (Restrictions)
Acts, 1920-1923,' and the Rats and Mice (Destruction) Act, 1919.
Infected Houses and Drainage Defects found by Male Inspectors.
A sanitary inspection is made; of infected houses, i.e., houses at
which infectious disease is notified compulsorily, and the sanitary
inspection includes, in the large majority of cases, the testing of
the drainage with the chemical test.* Taking the ordinary notifiable
infectious diseases, out of the 1,443 infected houses dealt with during
1923, the results are as follows, the averages being given in brackets
for the past 25 years, 1891—1915:—
(a) 28, i.e., 1.9 per cent. were found to have defective drains,
i.e., a result was obtained with the chemical test employed
(average = 14.3 per cent.).
(b) 668, i.e., 46.3 per cent. showed defects in drains, traps,
fittings and appliances (average = 53.1 per cent.).
(c) 775, i.e., 53.7 per cent. showed no defects (average = 46.9
per cent.).
Registration of Cow-houses, Slaughter-houses, Common
Lodging-houses, and Milk Shops.
During 1923 three Cow-houses †, eleven Slaughter-houses, ‡
and four Common Lodging-houses'§ licences were renewed by the
London County Council.
*The above statistics do not include ophthalmia neonatorum, measles and
German measles and tuberculosis, which have been omitted so as to keep the
statistics for 1923 comparable with those for past years. The figures for
measles and German measles infected houses during 1923 are:—6 defective
drains and 286 defective traps, fittings, and appliances, out of a total of 1,046
infected houses inspected. No testing of drains is carried out as a routine in
the case of ophthalmia neonatorum and tuberculosis-infected houses.
† 3 cow-houses—Elder Road Dairy, 76 and 78, Gipsy Hill, and 38, Hartington
Road.
†11 slaughter-houses—27 Bedford Road, 207, Coldharbour Lane, 77,
Dulwich Road, 120, High Street, and 121, High Street (West Norwood),
Industry Terrace (Canterbury Road), 60, Kennington Park Road, 151,
Lambeth Walk, 99, Lower Marsh, 106, Lower Marsh, 45, New Park Road.
§ 4 common lodging houses—19, Belvedere Crescent, 108, Lambeth Walk,
106, Wandsworth Road, 90-92, Westminster Bridge Road.