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Extra duties were thrown upon the 12 male district Sanitary
Inspectors under the Increase of Rent and Mortgage Interest
(Restrictions) Acts, 1920-1923, and the Rats and Mice (Destruction)
Act, 1919.
Infected Houses and Drainage Defects found by Male Inspectors.
A sanitary inspection is made of infected houses, i.e., houses at
which infectious disease is notified compulsorily, and the sanitary
inspection includes, in the large majority of cases, the testing of
the drainage with the chemical test*. Taking the ordinary notifiable
infectious diseases, out of the 1,498 infected houses dealt with during
1927, the results are as follows, the averages being given in brackets
for the past 25 years, 1891-1915:—
(a) 21, i.e., 1.40 per cent. were found to have defective drains,
i.e., a result was obtained with the chemical test employed
(average = 14.3 per cent.).
(b) 683, i.e., 45.46 per cent. showed defects in drains, traps,
fittings and appliances (average = 53.1 per cent.).
(c) 794, i.e., 53.00 per cent. showed no defects (average =
46.9 per cent.).
Registration of Cow-houses, Slaughter-houses, Common
Lodging-houses, and Milk Shops.
During 1927, 2 Cow-houses†, 9 Slaughter-houses‡, and 3
Common Lodging-houses'§ licences were renewed by the London
County Council.
The applicants were registered by the Council as milk sellers
or purveyors of milk at the following premises, which were certified
* The above statistics do not include ophthalmia neonatorum, measles
and German measles and tuberculosis, which have been omitted so as to
keep the statistics for 1927 comparable with those for past years. The
figures for measles and German measles infected houses during 1927 are:—
2 defective drains and 134 defective traps, fittings, and appliances, out of
a total of 899 infectea houses inspected. No testing of drains is carried
out as a routine in the case of ophthalmia neonatorum and tuberculosisinfected
houses.
†2 cow-houses—Elder Road Dairy and 76 and 78, Gipsy Hill.
‡9 slaughter-houses—207, Coldharbour Lane, 77, Dulwich Road,
120, High Street, and 121, High Street (West Norwood), Industry Terrace
(Canterbury Road), 60 Kennington Park Road, 99, Lower Marsh, 106, Lower
Marsh, 45, New Park Road.
§ 3 common lodging houses—19, Belvedere Crescent, 106, Wandsworth
Road, 90-92, Westminster Bridge Road.