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94
Defective or dirty—
Yards 15
Floors 14
Roofs 31
Windows —
Ceilings 14
Rain Water Pipes 2
Sink Wastes 4
Water supply 7
Premises generally 53
Sanitary Appliances: Water Closets—
Dirty 9
Ill-lighted —
Unventilated —
Choked 5
Defective 17
Defective Flushing Tanks and Water Supply 16
Sanitary Appliances: Drainage—
Choked 1
Defective —
Unventilated 1
Sanitary Appliances : Dustbins—
Wanting 11
Defective 17
Sanitary Appliances: Lavatories—
Dirty —
Defective 1
* No separate suitable sufficient W.C. accommodation for
the sexes 2
Miscellaneous defects, e.g., accumulations, personal unclean
liness, etc. 7
The Female Inspectors, during 1914, were engaged in visiting
159 houses wherein deaths from infantile (summer) diarrhœa were
reported as having occurred, with a view to helping to further
elucidate the predisposing causes of this disease; in inspecting
schools (123), in connection with outbreaks of disease (chiefly
measles); and in visiting (a) 1458 private houses, wherein births
had been notified or registered, with a view to educating the
mothers and others concerned in the proper feeding and management
of their infants, and (b) 1116 private houses, wherein tuberculosis
patients had been notified, with a view to educating the
*The Sanitary Accommodation Order 1903 does not apply to the Metropolis.