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In that report I indicated the general arrangements and the
cost of the inspection and I have now pleasure in stating that the
inspection has been accomplished as originally planned.
I was fortunate in getting together a group of good workers
who carried out their duties with both tact and efficiency. It is
remarkable to record that there were only two occasions on which
a complaint was made in the course of the large number of
inspections, each being the result of a little misunderstanding.
A large amount of the credit for the expedition and smoothness
with which the inspection was carried out is due to the close supervision
exercised by the Sanitary Inspectors and particularly by
the Chief Sanitary Inspector on whom the main direction of the
work fell.
Twelve enumerators and three clerks were engaged to carry
out the preliminary inspections but one enumerator was taken ill
after working for ten days and did not return. The whole of the
enumeration was completed in four weeks in accordance with the
time estimated.
After the enumeration of suspected or actually overcrowded
houses, the measuring was carried out by seven measurers who
took four weeks and one day to carry out the work. In summarising
the actual results of the measurement two clerks were employed
for six weeks and one for four weeks.
In my previous report it was estimated, as a result of a careful
scrutiny by the Sanitary Inspectors of all houses street by street
aided by information already available and by the voters' lists,
that 14,712 dwelling-houses would have to be dealt with by the
enumerators but actually 15,529 came under review. This latter
figure includes 273 houses found empty in the course of the
enumeration and 22 which were found not be be of working-class
type, making the actual number enumerated 15,234. Of the 273
empty houses enumerated, 34 proved not to be of the workingclass
type and 116 were found to be occupied when on the 20tli
January they were all reinspected on the same day, thus leaving
123 empty houses to be considered.
At the conclusion of the enumeration it was found that 317
dwelling-houses were definitely overcrowded and 1,112 possibly
overcrowded, making a total of 1,429 dwelling-houses to be
measured.