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maintained in a thorough state of readiness in case of any
emergency.
Residents in the District are invited to use this Hospital
should any cases of infectious or contagious disease occur in
their families, the charge being only one guinea per week,
covering medical attendance, board, lodging and nursing.
Application for admission should be made at the Board's
Offices at Catford, where forms of the requisite certificate
and agreement may be obtained.
SANITARY WORK.
Table six in the Medical Officer's Report shows the
number of complaints brought under the notice of the Board
and the Committees, and the proceedings taken thereon. On
reference to such table it will be seen that a large number
of houses were inspected during the year, and that sanitary
amendments were found to be required in a great many cases.
In all such cases the proper notices were served and the
required amendments were carried out.
There are in so large a district many instances in which
nuisances or sanitary defects can only be brought to the
notice of the Board or its Officers by the occupiers or persons
interested. On receipt of notice of any nuisance or defect
the Board's officers will at once attend to the matter, and
proceedings will be taken if the defect comes properly within
the Board's jurisdiction under the Sanitary Acts.
The house inspection above referred to included the
inspections made under the regulations adopted by the Board
as to houses let in lodgings, or occupied by members of more
than one family. Those regulations are referred to in the
following pages.
During the year there were 337 complaints or requests
as to the removal of dust. Personal enquiry is made into
each such case. In the majority of cases it is found that the
men are not allowed to remove the dust on calling for the
same in their regular rounds. These refusals frequently arise
in consequence of some little inconvenience to occupiers or
their servants at the time of the dustman's call, and as the