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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 overestimate
the value such a measure has in preventing the origin and
spread of preventable sickness, for 50 per cent. of such inspections
resulted in intimation notices. In the case of 48 of the complaints
received no nuisance existed at the time of inspection.
As during previous years, a considerable portion of the time of the
Sanitary Inspectors has been taken up by house-to-house inspection,
and it is no exaggeration to state that the Borough of Stoke Newington
has received more attention in this respect than any other Metropolitan
Borough—there being now very few houses in the borough which have
not been inspected at least once during the past few years. Having
regard to the expense and inconvenience which the work entails upon
owners and occupiers, it is satisfactory to be able to record the fact
that very little friction has resulted. For many years £10,000 must
have been annually expended in the borough by owners and occupiers
of property as the result of our house-to-house inspection, and it is only
right that the Sanitary Inspector should closely supervise this work, so
that owners may know that it is properly done, and so that the Sanitary
Authority may not be under the necessity of putting them to further
expense in the near future.
It is found that in Stoke Newington, whenever an intimation is
served as the result of house-to-house inspection, the Inspector pays
on an average five visits in order to see that the work required is
properly carried out.
The slaughter-houses, bake-houses, cowsheds 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,