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NOTES UPON SANITARY WORK PERFORMED
DURING THE YEAR 1914.
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; 4,497 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; 557 Intimation Notices, followed
in 17 cases by Statutory Notices, were complied with. Of 4,497
premises inspected, only 182 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 52 of the complaints received,
no nuisance existed at the time of inspection. 4,369 re-inspections
were made, making a total for the year of 8,866 inspections.
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 during 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 future all obviously
unsound food will be thus surrendered.
During the year many systematic efforts were made to
detect the sale of diseased meat within the Borough, and I am
glad to say that, with few exceptions, our inspections have not
called for any seizures.
STABLE MANURE.
In recent years there has been a constant decrease in the
amount of stable manure in London owing to the displacement of