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The destructor provided by the Board works very satisfactorily both
by night and day.
I append in Table XXVI. an interesting financial statement prepared
by Mr. H. O. Thomas, the Surveyor to the Board, relative to its use,
which shows a considerable saving financially to the district.
Housing of
the Working
Classes Act.
The number of houses dealt with under this Act, has
necessarily not been so large as in previous years. Certificates
were however given in reference to 11 houses, and three of these were
subsequently demolished.
Underground
Rooms.
The question of underground rooms as dwelling rooms
has been under serious consideration so far as Woolwich is
concerned, the present stringent regulations on this subject will I think
have the effect of abolishing the use of all these places, for I think it will
be impossible for your Board to relax the regulations as laid down by
the Public Health Act, and I certainly shall be unable from a Public
Health point of view to advise any such course to be adopted.
Houses let
in Lodgings.
The Bye-laws relative to these have now received the
approval of the Local Government Board, and will at once
be put in force.
It will be necessary to employ additional help to obtain proper
measurements of rooms in houses recommended for registration, and it
certainly will be necessary that a re-arrangement of the duties of the
Sanitary Inspectors should be made to enable them to deal with the
additional work of inspection imposed thereby.
Sanitary
and other
Improvements
The most noteworthy events which have happened during
he year, and which have a beneficial influence upon the
health and progress of the district are :—
1, The adoption of the Public Libraries Act.