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Overcrowding:—
Number of cases of overcrowding found 227
Number remedied 146
Number of prosecutions
Smoke Nuisances:—
Number of observations 27
Number of intimations served 3
Number of Statutory notices served
Number of complaints received 5
Number of legal proceedings
Number of convictions
Amount of penalty and costs imposed in each case
Cleansing and Disinfection:—
Number of adults cleansed 4
Number of children cleansed 6
Number of premises cleansed:—
(a) After infectious diseases 1,191
(b) for vermin 185
Water Supply to Tenement Houses:—
Number of premises supplied 7
Number of prosecutions
London County Council (General Powers Act), 1904:—
Number of premises dealt with under Section 20 185
The intimations as to insanitary conditions which as stated were served in
respect of 6,357 premises were dealt with by the Sanitary Inspectors as follows:—
By Inspector Wright 678, Inspector Chapman 496, Inspector Sickelmore 600, Inspector
Thomas 410, Inspector Shaw 514, Inspector Molloy 430, Inspector Bishop 652,
Inspector Girling 534, Inspector Stratton 491, Inspector Grant 510, Inspector Walker
632, and by Inspector Gibbs 410.
In connection with the Inspectors' Sanitary work some 1,910 letters were written
to owners and others concerned.
The Sanitary Inspectors made 50,337 visits. Of these visits 10,265 were in
connection with dwellings and 2,123 with workshops. Visits made in connection
with factories, laundries, bakehouses, cowsheds and milk vendors' premises, ice-cream
shops, slaughterhouses and other places where food is prepared and sold, together with
some 587 visits of inspection made in connection with the street markets, stables and
stable yards, and for the detection of unsound food, are included in the totals given
above.
Statutory notices under the Public Health (London) Act, 1891, were served by
order of the Sanitary Authority upon the parties responsible for the abatement of
nuisances in 1,333 instances.
For non-compliance with the requirements of the Sanitary Authority proceedings
were taken before the Magistrate in 64 instances,
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