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Inspections.
Under this headings the total number of inspections
and re-inspections made during the year amounted to
13,246 as compared with 14,404 made during the year
1912. This decrease, I have to mention, is to some
extent due to the fact that Mr. C. Slade, who was appointed
Clerk in the Department during April, 1911,
left in March of last year to take up his new duties
as Assistant Sanitary Inspector under the Barnes
Urban District Council, thus necessitating the importation
of a Clerk into the Department whose knowledge
of the Public Health work was not to be compared with
that which Mr. Slade possessed; in consequence, it was
imperative for either myself or one of the District
Inspectors to constantly be in attendance in the Department
for a greater part of the remainder of the year,
during which time the inspectorial work was carefully
arranged and carried out.

House-to-House Inspection.
Special attention was paid to the "House-toHouse"
inspections during the year under the Housing