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carries out under the Petroleum Acts and the Towns Police
Clauses Acts. It is essential in a developing district like this,
that nuisances of any kind should not be allowed to exist, and full
and adequate routine inspection of the district is necessary. One of
the earlier lessons of sanitary reformers, was that filth meant death,
and in these more salubrious days this fact should never be forgotten.
From year to year, the duties of your Sanitary Staff continue to
increase. I referred in my Annual Report for 1909, to the fact that
the Local Government Board's Order of 1891 required systematic
house-to-house inspection to be carried out, and that this had not
been done on account of the inadequacy of the present Staff to overtake
it. The Housing (Inspection of District) Regulations, 1910,
made by the Local Government Board under the Housing, Town
Planning, etc., Act, 1909, make it an imperative duty of the Local
Authority to make provision for carrying this out.
A new General Order as to the duties of Medical Officers of
Health and Inspectors of Nuisances was issued on the 13th December,
1910.
During the past ten years, no addition has been made to the
Sanitary Staff, and during this period the population has increased
by at least 10,000, and very considerable work has been placed on
the Health Department by the following Acts, Orders and Regulations:—
Factory and Workshop Acts, 1901 and 1907, and three Orders,
1903—1907, and Regulations 1908 made thereunder.
Petroleum Acts, 4 Regulations, 1900—1905, and 2 Orders, 1904,
made thereunder.
County Council of Middlesex (General Powers) Act, 1906, Part V.
Bye-Laws with respect to Nuisances in connection with the
Removal of Offensive or Noxious Matters, 1907.
Public Health Acts (Amendment) Act, 1907.
Public Health (Tuberculosis) Regulations, 1908.
Housing, Town Planning, etc., Act, 1909.
Housing (Inspection of District) Regulations, 1910.
The Sanitary Officers (outside London) Order, 1910.