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No complaints were received as to the quality of the water, nor was there any
reason for suspecting the occurrence of any illness due to consumption of the water.
SANITARY WORK.
Intimations as to insanitary conditions were served in respect to 5,381 premises.
In 633 instances they were dealt with by Inspector Wright, in 521 by Inspector
Chapman, 447 Inspector Sickelmore, 418 Inspector Thomas, 331 Inspector Shaw,
485 Inspector Molloy, 728 Inspector Bishop, 371 Inspector Girling, 431 Inspector
Stratton, 543 Inspector Grant, and in 473 under the supervision of Inspector
Walker.
In connection with the work of the Sanitary Inspectors 1,576 letters were
written to owners and others concerned.
Some 48,317 visits of inspection were made by the Inspectors in connection with
some 8,876 premises, which included 6,513 dwellings, 1,460 workshops, besides
factories, laundries, bakehouses, cowsheds and milk vendors' premises, ice cream
shops, slaughterhouses, places where food is prepared and sold, and other premises.
Several hundred visits of inspection made in connection with the street markets,
food exposed for sale, stables and stable yards, and common courts and yards, are
included in the total given above. The inspection of 1,495 of the dwellings was the
result of a house-to-house visitation which was in progress during the year by order
of the Sanitary Authority.
In Table IX. (Appendix) is contained a Summary giving particulars as to the work
done for the abatement of nuisances and for improving the dwellings of the people
in the Borough, which has been compiled by the Senior Inspector from particulars
supplied by the Sanitary Inspectors. The Summary includes the work carried out
to comply with the provisions of the Factory and Workshops Act, 1901, and also
that done in connection with the drains and sanitary arrangements of new buildings.
Most of the work done was carried out to comply with the requirements stated on
the intimation notices served. Statutory Notices under the Public Health (London)
Act, 1891, were served by order of the Sanitary Authority upon parties responsible
for the abatement of nuisances and for otherwise not complying with the requirements
of the Act in 1,085 instances. For non-compliance with Statutory Notices and other
infringements of the Acts relating to public health, and of bylaws made thereunder
and other offences, proceedings were taken before the Magistrate in 122 instances.
A Summary is given on page 68 (Appendix) showing the results of these proceedings.
SMOKE NUISANCES.
Twenty communications were received from the London County Council
referring to the emission of black smoke from the shafts on 11 premises. These were
all duly brought to the notice of the parties responsible. In four cases intimations
were served after observation by the sanitary inspectors, but it was not necessary to
report any of them to the Sanitary Authority for further action.
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