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During the year the Borough Council continued its agreement
with the Education Department of the London County Council to
bathe and cleanse verminous school children, resident in Stoke
Newington.
On receiving application from the London County Council,
the Borough Council, desirous of extending the utility of its
Cleansing Station to school children attending elementary schools
on the borders of Stoke Newington and within easy access of the
Cleansing Station, decided that in addition to providing for the
cleansing of verminous school children attending the elementary
schools within the Borough, it was prepared to undertake the
cleansing of children attending the Newington Green School, the
Hindle Street, High Street (Hackney), and St. Jude's Schools
(Islington), subject to the undertaking that in no one week are
more than 20 children to be dealt with.
The Shelter has been maintained during the year. The
Borough Council is under a statutory obligation to maintain this
provision, and in the event of an epidemic of certain diseases, it
will prove a useful auxiliary means of checking the spread.
NOTES UPON SANITARY WORK PERFORMED
DURING THE YEAR 1912.
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; 4,181 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; 821 Intimation Notices, followed
in 19 cases by Statutory Notices, were complied with. Of 4,181
premises inspected, only 198 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