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15
South Wharf Road Adults (Mother and 2 grown-up sons), and
4 children in a kitchen containing about
1,100 cubic feet.
41 Cirencester Street In the front kitchen a woman lived who kept
14 cats, the smell from which was intolerable.
They were on the chairs, on the bed,
on the table, in the fender; in fact, were
Overcrowded by
animals.
everywhere. She was in receipt of Parish
relief and refused to get rid of them. The
Inspector, after a great deal of trouble,
caused her to give up keeping them, and
had the kitchen cleaned.
The difficulty is in knowing what to do with overcrowding
cases, for it happens that these unfortunate
people are compelled to remove to distant houses
situated out of the Parish, where they are not so
strictly looked after, and where no systematic Sanitary
work goes on to detect and prevent the evil recurring
in a worse form.
What however will much add to the value of the
work of sanitary inspection, is a more prompt knowledge
of the seat and origin of infectious disease. The
books of the Medical Officers of the Union are searched
weekly for such cases, and the Relieving Officers are
invited to give information of cases of infectious disease,
and any local causes of sickness, but the information is
only partial, and of little value in comparison with
much that might be done in controlling and arresting
epidemic diseases by a
Registration of Sickness.
Periodical returns of sickness have long been called
for by Officers of Health. This would prove even
more beneficial to the public than death returns of the