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The registered common lodging houses afford accommodation for 768 men.
During the course of the year visits of inspection were made by the sanitary inspectors
and the general condition of these houses was found to be satisfactory sanitarily. In
several slight defects in connection with the sanitary conveniences and yard paving
were remedied. At No. 6 Boot Street the water closet and lavatory accommodation
was unsatisfactory and a re-arrangement with some additional accommodation in the
way of sanitary conveniences was carried out under the supervision of the chief
inspector resulting in a great improvement being effected. This was the only extensive
piece of sanitary work found necessary in connection with the registered common
lodging houses in the Borough.
STREET MARKETS AND POOD.
Early in the year the question of the supervision of the market streets on
Saturday nights and Sunday mornings came under the consideration of the Borough
Council. Hitherto, it had been the practice for one inspector, with the assistance of
one of the disinfecting officers to discharge this duty, the five district sanitary
inspectors acting in rotation. It was felt that there was a good deal more work
entailed in this duty than one inspector could adequately perform, and it was decided
that as many of the inspectors as may be required, should be on duty in the street
markets every Saturday night and Sunday morning.
The usual daily supervision was exercised by the sanitary officers over the street
markets and the food exposed for sale, and frequent inspections were made with a
view to the detection of unsound food. Except in a comparatively few instances the
quality of the various food stuffs exposed for sale was excellent.
The following articles were destroyed during the year as unfit for the food of man:—
mutton 14 legs, 153 pieces and 114 lbs., mutton and beef 31 lbs., rabbits 8 cwt., Ostend
rabbits 1 box and 66 lbs., bacon 10 lbs., 6 fowls, 2 boxes and 30 lbs. of cods' roes,
4 barrels of herrings, 1 barrel of skate, 2 trunks of haddocks, 78 boxes and 112 lbs. of
tomatoes, 9 baskets of carrots, 50 bananas, and 2 boxes of pears.
In many instances the unsound articles were brought under the notice of the
sanitary officers. In one instance a seizure of tomatoes was made, and an order was
obtained from a magistrate for their destruction. It was not, however, deemed
advisable to prosecute in this case.
ICE-CREAM SHOPS.
During the year special attention was given to the premises in Shoreditch upon
which ice-cream is manufactured or sold. It has been pointed out by several
competent observers that ice-cream is oftentimes made under conditions which render