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Sanitary Inspector's Office,
Barking, March 7 th, 1899.
To the Chairman and Members of the Barking Town Urban
District Council.
Gentlemen,
ANNUAL REPORT.
I have pleasure in submitting my Annual Report for the
year 1898. During the year, I have served 1,146 notices for the
abatement of nuisances, the major part being preliminary; the
number of compliances was 964; the number of complaints
which I received was 162, which were attended to forthwith;
9 cases of overcrowding were dealt with and the nuisance
abated; 105 cases of infectious disease were removed to the
Isolation Hospitals at Upney. In 53 cases, beds, bedding, and
articles likely to retain infection have been taken from private
houses, and disinfected in one of Washington Lyon's Steam Disinfectors.
During the year 201 houses were disinfected; notices have
been served to whitewash and cleanse such houses, and compliance
therewith insisted upon. Special disinfectants have been prepared
and supplied in cases of Typhoid Fever, and ordinary disinfectants
in other cases twice weekly, according to instructions. 591 flushing
cisterns were fixed in w.c.'s attached to old properties. Printed
forms cautioning persons suffering with, or having charge of
persons suffering with an infectious disease were served. Lists of
cases of persons suffering with an infectious disease were supplied
to the Head Teachers of the various Public, Elementary, and
Sunday Schools, aud the Pawnbrokers, Laundresses, Ministers, and
House Agents, in the town. The whole of the Slaughter Houses,
Chopping Houses, Cooking Houses, &c., in the district, were limewhited
four times during the year, and the Bakehouses, Cow Sheds,
Dairies, and one Common Lodging House, twice. Blockages of
drains and sewers were reported to the Surveyor's department for
attention. The drains in connection with 191 houses were tested, and
102 found defective.
I am, Gentlemen,
Your obedient servant,
F. MARTIN,
Inspector of Nuisances