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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Battersea 1902
Report on the health of the Metropolitan Borough of Battersea for the year 1902
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TABLE XXV.
| Total Sanitary Operations | 77923 |
| Number of house inspections | 34004 |
| Bakehouse inspections | 561 |
| Bakehouse nuisances abated | 41 |
| Urinal—inspections | 414 |
| Do. altered, repaired, or water laid on | 75 |
| Intimations served, under Sec. 3 | 3430 |
| Notices served under Sec. 4 | 802 |
| Notices served under Sec. 62 & 65 | 1447 |
| Complaints received & attended to | 2911 |
| Number of houses disinfected | 1612 |
| Houses supplied with disinfectants | 4793 |
| House drains flushed with disinfectants after infectious disease | 1712 |
| Overcrowding abated | 71 |
| Premises cleansed and repaired | 698 |
| Drains tested By smoke | 1616 |
| „water | 5888 |
| Drains cleansed and repaired | 223 |
| Drains relaid | 848 |
| Frontage drains constructed or re-constructed | 170 |
| Soil-pipes and drains ventilated | 1275 |
| Sink and rain water pipes disconnected or repaired | 325 |
| Water Closets cleansed & repaired | 384 |
| Cesspools abolished | 2 |
| Mews & Stables drained & paved | 16 |
| Yards drained and paved | 510 |
| Accumulations of manure and other obnoxious matter removed or proper receptacles provided | 109 |
| Dust receptacles provided | 378 |
| Leaky house-roofs and gutters repaired | 341 |
| Houses supplied with water, and fittings repaired | 206 |
| Water closets supplied with water or supply disconnected from drinking water cisterns | 618 |
| Cisterns covered, cleansed and repaired | 386 |
| Keeping of animals in unfit state discontinued | 45 |
| Smoke nuisances dealt with | 66 |
| Certificates of disinfection granted | 2018 |
| Houses inspected and certificates granted (Sec. 48) | 251 |
| Proceedings Ordered by Council and Health Committee | 2861 |
| Summonses issued | 116 |
| Magisterial Orders obtained and enforced | 91 |
| Factories & Workshops inspections | 1919 |
| Sanitary conveniences provided or improvements effected in Factories & Workshops. | 260 |
| Underground sleeping rooms disused | 4 |
| Gipsy van inspections | 185 |
| Drains laid to new houses and tenements | 220 |
| Samples taken under the Sale of Food and Drugs Acts | 500 |
| Other Sanitary operations | 133 |
House-to-House Inspection.
The total number of houses inspected in house-to-house
inspection was 1,740, and defects were found in 744 houses,
or 43 per cent, of the total number inspected. Systematic
house-to-house inspection is an important feature of sanitary
work, and it is to be regretted that last year the calls on the
staff in other directions, particularly in connection with
Small-pox, rendered it impossible to carry out more work in
this direction. With the present staff it will be impossible to
complete a house-to-house inspection of the whole district in
less than eight years without seriously neglecting other
important work.