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NOTES UPON SANITARY WORK PERFORMED DURING
THE YEAR 1911.
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; 3,746 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; 598 Intimation Notices, followed in 12
cases by Statutory Notices, were complied with. Of 3,746 premises
inspected, only 178 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.
In the case of 34 of the complaints received, no nuisance existed at
the time of inspection.
It is found that in Stoke Newington, whenever an Intimation
Notice is served as the result of house-to-house inspection, the Inspector
has to pay on an average between four and five visits in order
to see that the work required is properly carried out.
The slaughter-houses, bakehouses, cowsheds and dairies, the
common lodging-house, and the registered houses let in lodgings,
situated in the Borough, were all inspected throughout the year.
FOOD INSPECTION.
The amount of unwholesome food seized in Stoke Newington is
very small, even when regard is had to the size of the Borough. On
the other hand, a not inconsiderable amount of unwholesome food
has been surrendered for destruction during the year, the particulars
of which are shown in the Report of the Chief Sanitary Inspector.
It is to be hoped that in the near future all obviously unsound food
will be thus surrendered.
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