View report page

76
This increasing of the number of collections from one to three per week
over a large area is quite a new departure and the effect of the more frequent
removal will be watched with the greatest interest. Practically all the streets
in which the frequency has been increased consist of houses mainly of the
tenement class occupied by more than one family of persons in poor
circumstances. Many of the houses are without open spaces, or have only a
small yard, so that the dust bin must be kept inside or close to the premises,
and is apt to cause nuisance unless frequently emptied.
The addition to the price of the contract is exceedingly small (£274) and
this fact as well as the results obtained in the experimental area will probably
be taken into consideration by the Public Health Committee in deciding what
alterations, if any, they should make when the time comes for entering into new
contracts.
The usual close supervision was exercised over the work of the contractors
by the Public Health Committee during the year. The reports of the inspectors
and the complaints, letters and refusals received were considered by the Dust
Sub.Committee, which is fortunate in having Alderman J. Lea.Smith still as its
chairman, at their fortnightly meetings, reports thereon being made to the
Public Health Committee.
Considerable numbers of dust shoots as well as old brick receptacles were
demolished during the year and new metal dust receptacles to the number of
143 were provided.
Inspectors Hill and Lumley, the dust inspectors, paid 5,857 visits and
served 165 notices regarding defaults in connection with dust removal. Remedies
in each case were carried out without the necessity for prosecutions arising.
VERMINOUS PERSONS BATHS.
During 1910 these Baths were used by 8,484 adults (males 6,433 I females,
2,051). The children bathed numbered 1,372, 513 being boys and 859 girls.
The addresses given by the male adults included Salvation Army Shelter 5,021,
and lodging houses 582.
In 588 instances no address was given, and in 242 the applicants stated they
had come from the Church Army. The Portman House was given as an address
by 434 females, the Church Army by 8, and addresses in the Borough by 68. So
many as 1541 gave no address.
The marked falling off in the numbers of school children resorting to the
baths-the number in 1909 was 4684-is due largely to the fact that only children