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a previous five years' period, omitting the period of the War,
when sanitary work was necessarily diminished, it will be seen
that the work has increased.
Intimation Statutory Legal
Notices. Notices. Proceedings.
Years 1921-1925 33,361 7,472 362
Years 1913-14-18-19-20 22,859 2,148 217
The work of sanitary inspection has, in fact, been carefully
and conscientiously carried out during the past five years, a circumstance
of the utmost importance in view of the overcrowding
in Hackney and neighbouring boroughs.
Systematic "House-to-House" inspection, under the Regulations
governing this form of inspection, was commenced in 1921.
A total of 190 streets (including under the word " street " terraces,
&c.), have been inspected, some of them, such as Nisbet Street
and Crozier Terrace, more than once. The results of these inspections
are entered up on the card index system so that the
conditions found on inspection and reinspection as regards any
particular street and any house in that street, can be easily ascertained.
A list of the streets inspected in this manner will be
found on page 104.
Although the work carried out by the Sanitary Inspectors is
of the utmost value in maintaining housing property in a comparatively
decent condition, and in checking the formation of slum
areas, it is not possible to prevent overcrowding, so that the
situation is becoming steadily more difficult in this respect. The
extent to which the careful work of the sanitary inspectors and staff
of the department has neutralised the ill-effects of overcrowding
is not realised. Thus, during 1925, no fewer than 143 premises
have been cleared of rats, 886 rooms sprayed or otherwise cleared
of vermin, 459 rooms cleansed, 33,895 articles disinfected, 3,434
adults and children cleansed from parasitic infection, by the staff
of the Public Health Department. The work of sanitary inspection,
however, can only be realised by carefully considering the