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Battersea 1909
Report on the health of the Metropolitan Borough of Battersea for the year 1909
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General Sanitary Administration.
The following table gives a summary of the work of the Sanitary Inspectors as far as the work admits of tabulation:— Summary of Sanitary Operations for the Year 1909.
| Total Sanitary Operations | 79,356 | Dust receptacles provided | 616 | |
| Number of house inspections | 12,340 | Leaky house-roofs and gutters repaired | 807 | |
| Bakehouse inspections | 226 | |||
| Bakehouse nuisances abated . . | 66 | Houses supplied with water, and fittings repaired | 308 | |
| Urinals—inspections | 207 | |||
| Do. altered, repaired or water laid on | 80 | Water closets supplied with water or supply disconnected from drinking water cisterns | 409 | |
| Intimations served under Sec. 3 | 4,318 | |||
| Notices served under Sec. 4, &c. | 1,253 | Cisterns covered, cleansed and repaired | 521 | |
| Notices served under Sec. 62 &65 | 2,228 | |||
| Complaints received &attended to | 3,741 | Keeping of animals in unfit state discontinued | 59 | |
| Number of houses disinfected . . | 2,656 | |||
| Houses supplied with disinfectants House drains flushed with disin | 5,791 | Smoke observations | 31 | |
| Certificates of disinfectiongranted | 2,532 | |||
| fectants after infectious disease | 2,656 | Houses inspected and certificates granted (Sec. 48) | 98 | |
| Overcrowding abated | 86 | |||
| Premises cleansed and repaired . | 3,780 | Proceedings ordered by Council and Health Committee | 4,720 | |
| Drains tested . . By smoke. | 721 | |||
| ,, water. | 3,521 | Summonses issued. . | 133 | |
| Drains cleansed and repaired | 630 | Magisterial Orders obtained and enforced | 78 | |
| Drains relaid Frontage drains constructed or | 469 | |||
| Factories, Workshops,&c.,inspec-tions | 4,673 | |||
| re-constructed | 71 | |||
| Soil-pipes and drains ventilated | 182 | Sanitary conveniences provided or improvements effected in Factories&Workshops (Sec. 38) | 400 | |
| Sink and rain water pipes dis-connected or repaired | 433 | |||
| Water Closets cleansed&repaired | 733 | |||
| Cesspools abolished | 2 | Underground sleeping rooms disused | 26 | |
| Mews & Stables drained & paved | 15 | |||
| Yards and forecourts paved and repaired | 742 | Gipsy van inspections | 113 | |
| Drains laid to new houses and tenements | 98 | |||
| Accumulations of manure and other obnoxious matter re-moved or proper receptacles provided | 135 | |||
| Samples taken under the Sale of Food and Drugs Acts | 1,000 | |||
| Miscellaneous | 639 | |||
Sanitation of House Property.
As in past years a good deal of attention has been devoted
to this important subject, The need for constant and systematic
supervision by means of house-to-house inspection is, in a district
such as Battersea, most imperative.
The work in connection with the inspection and supervision
of insanitary houses in the Borough is carried out by eight district
Inspectors, each of whom has a district assigned to him, and a
large part of their time is taken up with this class of work,