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Ealing 1914
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Ealing]
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Inspections.
The total number of inspections and re-inspections
made during the year was 11,613 as compared with
13,246 in 1913, the decrease being largely due to the
diversion of work of your Inspectors in connection
with the outbreak of Scarlet Fever during the autumn
part of the year, and the additional supervision necessary
in connection with the sanitary works carried
out, following the House-to-House and other inspections
of the property dealt with during the year.
The necessity for more frequent visits to premises
during the progress of the works has been more
marked than heretofore, in order to ensure that the
works are carried out in such a manner as will prevent,
for some time to come, a recurrence of the nuisance
dealt with.
The appended Table shows the number of inspections and re-inspections, made up as follows :—
| House-to-House Inspections | 195 |
| Inspections on Complaints | 129 |
| ,, following cases of Infectious Disease | 753 |
| under Daries, Cowsheds, and Milkshops Order | 165 |
| „ under Factories and Workshops Act | 261 |
| „ Meat, Fish. Fruit, etc | 3,539 |
| „ (quarterly) Slaughter-houses | 20 |
| Premises inspected periodically | 433 |
| Re-inspections of premises during progress of works | 6,163 |
| 11,658 |
House-to-House Inspections under the Housing
and Town Planning, etc., Act, 1909.
The following tabular statement shows the particulars
of the various nuisances dealt with in connection
with this important part of the Public Health
work.