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Battersea 1902

Report on the health of the Metropolitan Borough of Battersea for the year 1903

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General Sanitary Administration.
Table XX. gives a summary of the work of the sanitary inspectors,
so far as the work admits of tabulation.

Table: Table XX. gives a summary of the work of the sanitary inspectors, so far as the work admits of tabulation. Table XX.—Summary of Sanitary Operations for the Year 1903.

Table XX. gives a summary of the work of the sanitary inspectors, so far as the work admits of tabulation. Table XX.—Summary of Sanitary Operations for the Year 1903.

Total Sanitary Operations79356
Number of house inspections ...39737
Bakehouse inspections570
Bakehouse nuisances abated58
Urinal—inspections366
Do. altered, repaired, or water laid on87
Intimations served, under Sec. 34404
Notices served under Sec. 41447
Notices served under Sec. 62 & 65978
Complaints received & attended to2964
Number of houses disinfected ...1180
Houses supplied with disinfectants6381
House drains flushed with disinfectants after infectious disease1217
Overcrowding abated77
Premises cleansed and repaired1750
Drains tested ... By smoke ...1328
” water ...5771
Drains cleansed and repaired ...653
Drains relaid734
Frontage drains constructed or re-constructed146
Soil-pipes and drains ventilated746
Sink and rain water pipes disconnected or repaired...645
Water Closets cleansed & repaired1017
Cesspools abolished...3
Mews & Stables drained & paved42
Yards drained and paved1144
Accumulations of manure and other obnoxious matter removed or proper receptacles provided113
Dust receptacles provided912
Leaky house-roofs and gutters repaired1003
Houses supplied with water, and fittings repaired229
Water closets supplied with water or supply disconnected from drinking water cisterns857
Cisterns covered, cleansed and repaired822
Keeping of animals in unfit state discontinued96
Smoke observations487
Certificates of disinfection granted1595
Houses inspected and certificates granted (Sec. 48)381
Proceedings Ordered by Council and Health Committee ...3441
Summonses issued ...113
Magisterial Orders obtained and enforced90
Factories & Workshops inspections4623
Sanitary conveniences provided or improvements effected in Factories & Workshops (Sec. 38) ... ...108
Underground sleeping rooms disused ... ...55
Gipsy van inspections332
Drains laid to new houses and tenements ... ...362
Samples taken under the Sale of Food and Drugs Acts ...500
Other Sanitary operations137

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house-to-House Inspection.
The number of houses inspected in house-to-house
inspection was 2,670 as against 1,740 in 1902. In 1,660
houses defects were found, for which intimations were served.
Systematic house-to-house inspection is an important feature
in sanitary work, and it is to be regretted that the calls on
the staff in other directions made it impossible to give sufficient