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GENERAL.
2,766 Complaints (including 49 smoke) as to nuisances were made.
5,473 communications on general matters were dispatched, and 3,179 in
connection with the supply of milk.
During the year the following Orders, Regulations, Bye-laws, have
come into operation:—
Milk & Dairies Order, 1926.
L.C.C. Bye-laws for Houses divided into separate tenements, etc.
Public Health (Ophthalmia Neonatorum) Regulations, 1926.
Public Health (Puerperal Fever and Puerperal Pyrexia) Regulations,
1926.
POOR LAW RELIEF, Etc.
Mr. G. Butler, Clerk to the Guardians, has kindly supplied me with
the following information:—
Outdoor Relief. Medical Relief Only.
No. of persons. Cost. No. of persons.
£
1926 1,562,134 679,012 2,188
These figures are the sum of the total numbers relieved each week,
the averages per week being 30,041 (outdoor relief) and 42 (medical
relief). The average weekly cost of outdoor relief was £13.059.
During the year 1926, the total days maintenance in St. Andrew's
Hospital amounted to 210,858 (Poplar cases 210,577, Limehouse cases
281). giving an average daily number of 578.
Sick cases are also treated in the Poplar Institution Sick Wards, and
Maternity Cases in the All Saints' Maternity Annexe; the average
weekly numbers for the year are as follows:—
Sick Wards, Poplar Institution 189
Maternity Wards, All Saints' Annexe 20