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About 25% of the total samples examined contained preservative;
but, if the addition of preservatives is excluded from
consideration, the percentage of adulteration has been low.
SANITARY INSPECTIONS AND NUISANCES.
Notes and Comments.
DWELLINGS.
Many of the residents in Stoke Newington still stand in need
of more and better housing accommodation. The excessive
occupation of many houses still remains a serious detriment to
the public health.
During the past five years we have succeeded in obtaining
homes outside of the Borough for 18 families previously resident in
Stoke Newington. Sixteen of these families have been accommodated
in houses provided by the London County Council.
Of the dwelling-houses in the Borough, some 6,600 are of a
working-class rental and type. Although the average annual
increase of population for the five years before the war was about
eight per thousand, no new working-class dwellings have been
erected for some 10 years prior to the war. About 6,000 of the
houses are at present tenemented, and especially in the South
Hornsey Ward there are many tenements with more than two
occupants per room.
During 1921 the Borough Council Flats (18 Tenements) were
completed and occupied, but no other suitable site for building by
the Local Authority now remains. Each year every effort within
the powers of the existing staff of Inspectors has been made to
inspect the least satisfactory dwellings within the Borough, and
most of these have been dealt with annually.
The difficulties in securing a reasonably prompt abatement of
nuisances under Intimation Notices and even Final Notices have
led to great delays, for which we receive many complaints, and