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performed during the year: 3,691 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; 871 Intimation Notices, followed in 40 cases
by Statutory Notices, were complied with, Of this number only 260
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 over 50 per cent. of such inspections
resulted in intimation notices. In the case of 44 of the complaints
received, no nuisance existed at the time of inspection.
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 between four and 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,
in the interest of personal and public health, that they should bo
registered and inspected at frequent intervals.
By the end of the year 1905, 259 premises were on the Register,
103 new premises having been added during the year, and 63 taken off
as the result of removals, etc.
FACTORIES AND WORKSHOPS.
At the end of the year 1905 there were on the Register 172 workshops
and work-places: 178 such premises were on the Register in 1904.