Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Report on the health of the Metropolitan Borough of Battersea for the year 1904
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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 XX.—Summary of Sanitary Operations for the Year 1904.
Total Sanitary Operations | 80423 | Dust receptacles provided | 728 |
Number of house inspections | 43456 | Leaky house-roofs and gutters repaired | 787 |
Bakehouse inspections | 286 | ||
Bakehouse nuisances abated | 186 | Houses supplied with water, and fittings repaired | 316 |
Urinal—inspections | 579 | ||
Do. altered, repaired, or water laid on | 92 | Water closets supplied with water or supply disconnected from drinking water cisterns | 818 |
Intimations served under Sec. 3 | 5366 | ||
Notices served under Sec. 4 | 1975 | Cisterns covered, cleansed and repaired | 629 |
Notices served under Sec. 62 & 65 | 1085 | ||
Complaints received & attended to | 3424 | Keeping of animals in unfit state discontinued | 153 |
Number of houses disinfected | 1215 | ||
Houses supplied with disinfectants | 4171 | Smoke observations | 262 |
House drains flushed with disinfectants after infectious disease | 1217 | Houses inspected and certificates granted (Sec. 48) | 270 |
Certificates of disinfection granted | 1333 | ||
Overcrowding abated | 58 | ||
Proceedings Ordered by Council and Health Committee | 4593 | ||
Drains tested ... By smoke | 1209 | Summonses issued | 179 |
„ water | 5142 | Magisterial Orders obtained and enforced | 119 |
Drains cleansed and repaired | 460 | ||
Drains relaid | 689 | Factories & Workshops inspections | 4701 |
Frontage drains constructed or re-constructed | 152 | Sanitary conveniences provided or improvements effected in Factories & Workshops (Sec. 38) | 185 |
Soil-pipes and drains ventilated | 561 | ||
Sink and rain water pipes disconnected or repaired | 532 | ||
Water Closets cleansed & repaired | 993 | Underground sleeping rooms disused | 39 |
Cesspools abolished | 9 | ||
Mews & Stables drained & paved | 132 | Gipsy van inspections | 229 |
Yards and forecourts paved | 1389 | Drains laid to new houses and tenements | 270 |
Accumulations of manure and other obnoxious matter removed or proper receptacles provided | 158 | Samples taken under the Sale of Food and Drugs Acts | 700 |
Other Sanitary operations | 972 |
The following table gives particulars as to number of
houses inspected in house-to-house inspection during the year:—