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For the Borough as a whole, the attack.rates for the above diseases were as
follows : 1.3 for scarlet fever, 1.2 for diphtheria, 0.07 for puerperal fever and
1.3 for erysipelas.
HOUSES LET IN LODGINGS.
During the year 6 houses let in lodgings or occupied by members of more
than one family were placed on the register, namely, Nos. 53, 55, 57, 59, 61 and
63, Fanshaw Street. The number on the register at the end of the year was 272.
Sanitary notices were served in connection with 95 and statutory notices
in 53 instances. During the year 379 visits of inspection were made to houses
registered under the by.laws. The by.laws as to houses let in lodgings which were
made in 1894 and 1905 were repealed by by.laws which were allowed by the Local
Government Board on October 22nd of the year under consideration. The new
by.laws differ from the old ones chiefly in the interpretation of terms and in
containing no exemption Clause.
CUSTOMS AND INLAND REVENUE ACTS.
No applications for certificates under the above Acts as to the sanitary fitness
of dwellings for the purpose of obtaining exemption from payments of inhabited
house duty were received during the year.
SLAUGHTER HOUSES.
The licensed slaughter houses in the Borough at the end of the year numbered
5 as compared with 6 in 1911, 6 in 1910, 7 in 1909, 7 in 1908, 8 in 1907, 9 in 1906
and 12 in 1905. The slaughter house premises, at 4 Haggerston Road, when visited
in October were found unoccupied. The slaughter.houses were inspected from
time to time during the year, and their general sanitary conditions may be
reported as being satisfactory.
COWHOUSES.
The number of cowhouses at the end of the year was 7 ; there has been no
alteration in their number during the past nine years, but the number of cows
kept has been gradually dwindling. The cowhouses afford accommodation for
about 100 cows. The number of cows kept, however, was found at an inspection
made in October, to be 37 only. The numbers for previous years were 41 in 1911.
39 in 1910, 44 in 1909, 52 in 1908, 57 in 1907, 74 in 1906, 86 in 1905, 95 in 1904
and 101 in 1903. Generally the sanitary condition of the cowhouses was found to
be satisfactory.
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