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PUBLIC MORTUARY.
The bodies of 140 persons were deposited in the Mortuary, and the inquests
held numbered 134, in connection with which 131 post mortem examinations were
made, 79 in the post mortem room attached to the Mortuary. No infectious
bodies were removed to the Mortuary by the Sanitary Authority during the year.
WATER SUPPLY.
The Meteorological Table for London, deduced from observations at Greenwich
under the Astronomer Royal, issued by the Registrar-General for 1925, shows that
the rainfall for the year amounted to 23.379 inches, which is slightly below the
average. July was the wettest and June the driest month of the year.
In accordance with section 49 of the Public Health (London) Act, 1891,
communications were received from the Metropolitan Water Board as to water
supplies being cut off in respect to 15 premises, all of them in the Northern District.
The grounds for withdrawing the supplies were :—On account of defective water
pipes in 3 instances, waste on empty premises 4 and premises demolished in 8 instances.
Water was also laid on to 60 new premises in the Borough and in 3 instances additional
taps were provided in tenement houses.
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 5,573 premises.
In 560 instances they were dealt with by Inspector Wright, in 537 by Inspector
Chapman, 504 Inspector Sickelmore, 485 Inspector Thomas, 367 Inspector Shaw,
563 Inspector Molloy, 702 Inspector Bishop, 439 Inspector Girling, 504 Inspector
Stratton, 445 Inspector Grant and 467 under the supervision of Inspector Walker.
In connection with the work of the Sanitary Inspectors 1,656 letters were written
to owners and others concerned.
Some 51,949 visits of inspection were made by the Inspectors in connection with
some 12,037 premises, which included 9,701 dwellings, 1,498 workshops, besides
factories, laundries, bakehouses, cowsheds and milk vendors' premises, ice cream
shops, slaughterhouses, places where food is prepared and sold, and other premises.
Some 1,192 visits of inspection made in connection with the street markets, food
exposed for sale, stables and stable yards, are included in the total given above.
The inspection of 3,270 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.