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expenditure to an amount not exceeding £2 per 1,000 of the population.
Since June 6th, 59 cases of tuberculosis have received
assistance under this scheme.
Sanitary Inspection.
The details of the work of Sanitary Inspection, comprising as
it does so many services essential to the health of the community,
can be found in the report by referring to the index.
This work throughout the year has been carefully and
conscientiously carried out, and it is due to this fact that the
housing conditions of the Borough have not caused considerable
adverse comment.
The position is, however, becoming steadily more difficult.
The three additions to the inspecting staff have rendered it possible
to givel the additional attention that the increasing dilapidation of
the housing property renders necessary in order to prevent the
formation of large slum areas and maintain housing property in
comparatively decent condition, but it is not possible to deal with
overcrowding, apart from exceptionally bad cases, or to close
-a great deal of property that under other circumstances would
necessarily be shut down-
There are, as the Council is aware, 37 houses in the
Middlesex Wharf and Dockway property alone that the Tyssen
Amherst Estate wish to close, and that were reported to the
Council in July, 1918. Closing Orders were then made, but
owing to the difficulty in finding other accommodation for the
tenants, a difficulty by no means less at the present time, the
Ministry of Health would not then permit the houses to be closed.
A list of troublesome property will be found on page 93. Some
of the property, such as Xisbet Street, is only kept habitable by
constant attention, but even such property as this has been sufficiently
repaired, and some property of this kind, formerly derelict