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Extra 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.
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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 1,482 infected houses dealt with during
1926, the results are as follows, the averages being given in brackets
for the past 25 years, 1891-1915 :—
(a) 22, i.e. 148 percent, were found to have defective drains,
i.e. a result was obtained with the chemical test employed
(average = 14-3 per cent.).
(b) 645, i.e. 43-52 per cent, showed defects in drains, traps,
fittings and appliances (average = 53-1 per cent.).
(c) 815, i.e., 54-99 per cent, showed no defects (average = 46-9
per cent.).
Registration of Cow-houses, Slaughter-houses, Common
Lodging-houses, and Milk Shops.
During 1926, three Cow-houses,t ten Slaughter-houses, J and
four Common Lodging-houses'§ licences were renewed by the London
County Council.
The applicants were registered by the Council as milk sellers
or purveyors of milk at the following premises, which were certified
* The above statistics do not include ophthalmia neonatorum, measles and
German measles and tuberculosis, which have been omitted so as to keep the
statistics foi 1926 comparable with those for past years. The figures for measles
and German measles infected houses during 1926 are:—3 defective drains and
678 defective traps, fittings, and appliances, out of a total of 4,608 infected houses
inspected. No testing of drains is carried out as a routine in the case of ophthalmia
neonatorum and tuberculosis-infected houses.
t 3 cow-houses—Elder Road Dairy, 76 and 78, Gipsy Hill, and 38, Hartington
Road,
J 10 slaughter-houses—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, 4 S, New I 'ark Road.
§ 4 common lodging houses—19, Belvedere Crescent, 108, Lambeth Walk, 106,
Wandsworth Road, 90-92, Westminster Bridge Road.