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WORK CARRIED OUT DURING THE YEAR.
Much very important and useful work has been carried out
during the year. At the beginning of the year the Vestry by
resolution placed the Sanitary Inspectors under my direction.
Starting with the fact that we have 14,000 houses in the Hamlet
with only two Inspectors, it was at once obvious that it would
be quite impossible that they could visit the whole of the
district once a year. The first thing to do was to inspect the
worst streets, by a house to house visitation, which is the onlyproper
method of inspecting a district thoroughly; this inspection
has been carried out, and we find that the sanitary condition of
these areas have much improved during the last few years, and
in going through these districts periodically and sytematically
we find the houses kept in a more cleanly state and the premises
better looked after by the landlords than formerly. The
proceedings that we have taken to enforce the Vestry's orders
(and these were only taken in extreme cases), have had a very
wholesome effect, as 011 reinspecting premises after the notices
have expired we often find now a much larger proprotion of
works executed than was done in previous years.