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Annual Report of the Chief Sanitary
and Food Inspector.
To His Worship the Mayor, the Aldermen and Councillors of the
County Borough of East Ham.
Mr. Mayor, Ladies and Gentlemen,
I have the honour to submit to you my twenty-eighth Annual
Report of the work of the Sanitary Inspectors during the year
ended 31st December, 1923.
The total number of primary inspections made was 7,334.
These included 2,869 house-to-house inspections, visits to premises
upon complaint of nuisance, inspection of markets,
slaughterhouses, cowsheds, workshops, etc.
There were 14,463 nuisances, caused principally by sanitary
defects, discovered and dealt with by the Inspectors. (These are
fully detailed on inset page 98.) Of. these nuisances 6,632 were
detected in routine work, actual complaints, and 7,831 by houseto-house
inspection.

2,718 complaints were received, 1,334 written and 1,384 verbal.
Many matters complained of were irrelevant and outside the province
of a Sanitary Inspector. In such cases, whenever possible,
information is given to complainants—where to apply, etc.