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Chapel Farm, Eltham, was redrained and connected with
the special sewer made by the Council in the previous year.
14. Public Urinals.—The public lavatories and urinals
maintained by your Council were kept scrupulously clean. The
urinals attached to public houses were regularly inspected and
many notices served, and complied with. In 28 cases letters
were written to the landlords threatening that their license
would be opposed unless certain work required to prevent a
nuisance were complied with. This had the desired effect in
every case but one, as to which it was not thought necessary
to proceed. The work required consisted chiefly of providing
a light and making small structural alterations.
15. House Inspection.—6604 houses were inspected house
to house, and 7673 for infectious disease, complaints, &c. The
house to house inspections in 1901, 1902, 1903 and 1904
respectively are as follows :—4797, 4526, 6223 and 6604 ; and
the miscellaneous inspections 7123, 10956, 7791 and 7673.
It will be seen that the total number of inspections has greatly
increased. The miscellaneous inspections vary largely with
the amount of infectious diseases. The inspections of houses
let in lodgings are not included in the above figures as has been
the case in previous years ; there were 371, so that the total
house to house inspections was 6975.
16. Table XVI. shows the streets inspected, and number
of defective houses found in each. The largest number of
defects was found in River, St. Mary's, and Dockyard Wards.
In all the Wards except Herbert and Burrage, the majority of
the houses inspected had some defect.
At 2,917 houses, interiors were cleansed or roofs repaired,
compared with 3,082, 2,318, and 2,711 in the three preceding
years.