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Public Health Department,
December 31 st, 1900.
To the Medical Officer of Health, Bom District.
Sir,—
I beg to lay before you my eleventh Annual Summary of the
Sanitary work carried out in my Division during the year ending
December 31st, 1900, as follows :—
Inspections on complaint of nuisances 487
Do on notifications of infectious diseases 143
Do. on house-to-house visitation 884
Re-inspections 2617
Making a total of 4131 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 (1514 houses and other premises) of primary
inspections made, I found that 51.9 per cent, of the premises thus
inspected various works of sanitary amendment—requiring the service
of 786 intimations and 560 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
12 cases it was found necessary to have recourse to legal proceedings,
necessitating 9 attendances at the police-court to ensure their enforcement.