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Improved ventilation was provided in 44 houses, compared
with 94, 62, and 41, in the three preceding years.
474 new dust pails were supplied, compared with 516,
525, and 545, in the three preceding years.
24. Medical Officer's Special Inspections. These amounted
to a total of 433. 16 inspections were made of oowsheds and
milkshops, 28 of bakehouses, 9 of factories and workshops,
80 inspections were on account of tuberculosis, 57 cancer, 6
diphtheria, 7 scarlet fever, and 13 other infectious diseases.
Many of these visits were made by request of the medical
attendants for the purpose of diagnosing doubtful cases of
infectious disease. Other visits re infectious disease were
made at the request of school teachers and others. 110
premises were inspected re housing conditions. Special inpections
were made of Morris Street, New Street, High
Street Flats, St. Thomas' Cottages, and of all the houses
reported as unfit for human habitation.
25. Overcrowding. 93 cases of overcrowding were found
and remedied, compared with 97, 91, and 101, in the three
preceding years. The overcrowding was 2.5 per cent. of
house-to-house inspections, compared with 1.6 and 1.8 per
cent. in 1912 and 1913 respectively. Overcrowding has increased
with the impossibility of finding unoccupied houses.
These figures do not include 45 oases of overcrowding found
by Miss Middlebrooke and abated without serving notice.
26. Smoke Nuisance. 54 observations re smoke nuisance
were made, and 4 nuisances of black smoke observed. The
nuisances were abated on service of notices. There was no
prosecution. Considerable nuisance occurred from smoke at