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REPORT OF SANITARY INSPECTOR
To the Chairman and Members of
The Wanstead Urban District Council.
Gentlemen,
In accordance with the Regulations of the Local Government Board,
I beg to submit my Third Annual Report on the work carried out in the
Sanitary Department daring the year 1914.
INSPECTION OP DISTRICT.
The general expansion and speeding up of Public Health legislature
during recent years, has greatly increased, both objectives for inspection,
and the volume of work in consequence. The following particulars will
indicate therefore the nature and results of the more important inspections
undertaken.
The number of inspections from all causes, was 650
The number of re-inspections due largely to the supervision
of works required, etc1,870
The total number of visits was 2,520
COMPLAINTS.
The complaints investigated and attended to during the year totalled
210; eighty of these were in reference to house-drainage and sewer
ventilators, thirty-five were due to the non-removal of house refuse, and
respecting a number of others, no action could be taken.
Overcrowding was alleged to exist at ten houses, but of these, four
cases were subsequently abated ; the remainder proved to be unfounded
RE DRAINAGE.
As indicated by the'following list of premises re-drained, a large proportion
of the past year's work was necessarily involved in this important
direction.
The whole of this work was cherefore carried out under my personal
supervision, and, before completion, the new drains were submitted to
water and smoke tests.