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Births.—The Registrar General having made no
provision for keeping separate the births registered in
either Sub-district of the parish, it is not possible to arrive
at the correct numbers without access to the Birth
Register, with a copy of which the Medical Officers of
Health are not furnished, only the total number of births
registered each week in the whole parish being supplied
to them.
Sanitary proceedings.—The Medical Officer of Health,
the Surveyor, and the Inspector of Nuisances, have made
many and frequent inspections of dwellings, factories,
piggeries, slaughter houses, wharves and other premises
where accumulations of refuse, insufficient drainage, or its
entire absence, offensive and improperly conducted trades,
or disease of Zymotic type existed; and in a very large
majority of instances, by judicious advice to the owners
or occupiers of such premises, obtained an abatement or
total abolition of the existing evils, without the necessity
arising of a special report to your Board, or an appeal to
magisterial aid.
A few of the more important inspections made during
the year in the Eastern Sub-district were those made by
direction of your Board at—
1. The Southwark and Vauxhall Water Company's premises
at Nine Elms.
2. The Ozokerit Works of Messrs, C. J. Field in the
Wellington Road.
3. The wharf occupied by Mr. Covington at the London,
Brighton and South Coast Company's Goods Station
and adjoining the Southwark and Vauxhall Water
Company's premises.
1. In the case of the Southwark and Vauxhall Water
Company's premises at Nine Elms, a communication was
received alleging that the filtered water was exposed to
contamination before delivery to the public.