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with additional light and ventilation; 1,787 water closets were provided with
a proper flushing apparatus.
2,572 yards were cleansed, paved or repaired; 14 areas and stables were
paved and drained; and 417 washhouses and forecourts were paved.
There were 50 nuisances under the Public Health (London) Act, 1891,
with respect to the keeping of animals, and these were all abated.
7 nuisances with respect to open fires in yards were remedied.
Notices were served to provide 2,881 sanitary dust receptacles, and 11
manure receptacles were provided or re-constructed; 525 offensive accumulations
were removed from the rear of dwelling houses.
167 houses were ventilated under the lower floor.
11 underground rooms, which were illegally occupied, were discontinued
from being used as such.
23 urinals have been fixed.
38 notices were served for the abatement of smoke nuisances.
318 visits were made to bakehouses, and 318 cleansings were carried out.
9,495 notices were served to have houses cleansed.
255 sink, bath, lavatory or rain-water pipes, which were communicating
directly with the drain, were disconnected.
23,920 miscellaneous repairs to roofs, floors, gutters, etc., were carried
out as the result of notices served.
270 rooms were provided with additional light and ventilation, and the
damp walls of 1,183 rooms were remedied.
The number of registered milkshops at the end of the year was 419,
and 1,442 visits were made to inspect the condition of the premises, milk
receptacles, etc.
Ice cream was manufactured at 137 premises, and 260 inspections were
made to them.
3,032 verminous premises were cleansed during the year.
Disinfection. 159,068 articles were disinfected at the Disinfecting
Station during the year.
3,494 rooms were fumigated, and the bedding, etc., removed and disinfected
by steam. Of these, 3,195 rooms were disinfected because of
Infectious Disease, 244 as a result of Pulmonary Tuberculosis, and 55 rooms
because they were verminous. In addition to these, scabies occurred in 218
families, and their bedding was taken away and disinfected with steam. In
addition 3,032 verminous rooms were cleansed by the owners as a result of
notices served by the Inspectors.