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It is questionable, however, whether any system of reserving
slates and pencils to particular scholars or of repeated and efficient
disinfection is practicable. Pencil and paper have taken the place of
the slate in some schools, and this innovation has everything to
recommend it. One would like to see it adopted in the London
Board Schools.
NOTES UPON SANITARY WORK PERFORMED
DURING THE YEAR.
It will be seen from the accompanying Report of the Sanitary
Inspectors that a large amount of sanitary work has been performed
during the year. 2715 premises were inspected for conditions
injurious or dangerous to health, and insanitary conditions, varying
in their nature from slight to very grave, were discovered in a large
number of instances. 493 Intimation Notices, followed in cases
by Statutory Notices, were complied with.
Of this number only 125 inspections were made as the result of
complaints by householders and others, and this circumstance will
serve to accentuate the importance of prosecuting a fairly constant
system of house-to-house inspection in at least the poorer parts of
the Parish. It is difficult to over-estimate the value such a measure
has in preventing the origin and spread of preventable sickness.
The slaughter-houses, bake-houses, cowsheds and dairies situated in
the Parish were all duly inspected throughout the year.
The factories and workshops also have all been inspected during the
year, and I have kept the list of out-workers up to date.
HOUSES LET IN LODGINGS.
In the Parish of Stoke Newington, more especially in the
Southern Division, there is a considerable number of houses let in
lodgings under circumstances and conditions which render it desirable,
in the interest of personal and public health, that they should be
registered and inspected at frequent intervals.
By the end of the year 1900, 135 houses were on the Register.