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Notes upon Sanitary Work performed during the Year.
Inspection of the District has been systematically carried
out, including visits to the dairies, cowsheds, slaughterhouses,
bakehouses, workshops, houses in which epidemic disease had
broken out, insanitary property, and routine house to house
inspection. In all, some 6,665 inspections were made, and
nuisances to the number of 1,665 were discovered.
154 complaints with regard to alleged nuisances were
received during the year, and prompt attention was given to
each.
237 rooms were fumigated after infectious disease; and
3,936 articles, chiefly bedding and wearing apparel, were disinfected
in the Council's steam apparatus. In addition to the
above, 69 stovings of bedding, etc., were carried out and 45
patients were removed to hospital for the Friern Barnet
District Council.
A large number of house drains were reconstructed, the
work being supervised in a thorough and satisfactory manner
by the Sanitary Inspector. A plan of each drain re-laid is
made by the Inspector, and this, together with all necessary
particulars, is filed for future reference. It is satisfactory
to be able to report that increasing use is being made of
heavy cast iron pipes in place of stoneware. The latter,
although their initial cost is less, have not infrequently
proved more expensive in the end, owing to defects arising
through fracture of the collars from expansion of the cement
used in making the joints.
The meat, fish, poultry, and fruit shops, and premises
where food is prepared for sale, have been kept under observation.
A full statement of the work done under the Nuisance
Sections of the Public Health Acts, together with notes regarding
the dairies, slaughterhouses, etc., will be found in the
appended report of the Sanitary Inspector.