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District Inspectors
of
of
02r
their rounds.
house to house visitation.
I beg
the Committee
to direct the attention
to the following
matters which in
my opinion cannot be
adequately dealt with
by the present staff and which
are
may well be argued, entitled to receive more attention
in the
future
than it has been
possible to
give to them.
I. Overcrowding
The abatement of
overcrowding necessarily involves
night visits, i.e., domiciliary visits
between the hours of 11 pm and 5 am. (vide §. 9 of Ordinance 15 of 1894) and this work is at present done by
the first class Inspectors, but in order to be effective and
to have an appreciable result, such visits should
be made
every eight,
and this can hardly be done by an
Inspector who has in addition the supervision of
two Health Districts, of several cemeteries and of the limewashing of tenement dwellings. Night visits frequently involve prosecution, and I
have