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NOTES UPON SANITARY WORK PERFORMED DURING THE
YEAR.
It will be seen from the accompanying Report of the Chief Sanitary
Inspector that a large amount of sanitary work has been performed
during the year: 3,001 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: 1,064 Intimation Notices, followed in 30 cases
by Statutory Notices, were complied with.
Of this number only 315 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
borough. 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, cowshed,s and dairies situated in
the borough were all duly inspected throughout the year.
HOUSES LET IN LODGINGS.
In the Borough 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 1903, 180 premises were on the Register,
61 new premises having been added during the year.
FACTORY AND WORKSHOPS ACT, 1901.
At the beginning of the year 1903 there were on the Register 137
workshops and work-places.