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Overcrowding:—
Number of cases of overcrowding found 132
Number remedied 88
Number of prosecutions —
Smoke Nuisances
Number of observations 440
Number of intimations served 26
Number of Statutory notices served 2
Number of complaints received . 10
Number of legal proceedings —
Number of convictions —
Amount of penalty and costs imposed in each case —
Cleansing and Disinfection :—
Number of adults cleansed —
Number of children cleansed —
Number of premises disinfected after infectious disease 1,195
Number of verminous premises cleansed 135
Water Supply to Tenement Houses :—
Number of premises supplied —
Number of prosecutions —
London County Council (General Powers Act), 1904 :—
Number of premises dealt with under Section 20 135
The intimations as to insanitary conditions which as stated were served in
respect of 5,347 premises were dealt with by the Sanitary Inspectors as follows :—
By Inspector Wright 547, Inspector Chapman 497, Inspector Sickelmore 521,
Inspector Thomas 441, Inspector Shaw 105, Inspector Molloy 423, Inspector
Bishop 695, Inspector Girling 642, Inspector Stratton 440, Inspector Grant 179,
Inspector Walker 540 and by Inspector Gibbs 317.
In connection with the Inspectors' Sanitary work some 1,710 letters were written
to owners and others concerned.
The Sanitary Inspectors made 47,188 visits. Of these visits 8,346 were in
connection with dwellings, 1,459 with workshops, and 13,138 with infectious disease.
The latter figure includes 11,864 visits in connection with cases of small-pox. 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 442 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 1,383 instances.
For non-compliance with the requirements of the Sanitary Authority proceedings
were taken before the Magistrates in 49 instances.